The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: comprising a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons ...Routledge, 1867 - 526 pages |
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... told me , that he remembered distinctly having had the first notion of Heaven , " a place to which good people went , " and Hell , ' a place to which bad people communicated to him by her , when a little child in bed with her ; and that ...
... told me , that he remembered distinctly having had the first notion of Heaven , " a place to which good people went , " and Hell , ' a place to which bad people communicated to him by her , when a little child in bed with her ; and that ...
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... told me , that " he was an excellent master , and that his ushers were most of them men of eminence ; that Holbrook , one of the most ingenious men , best scholars , and best preachers of his age , was usher during the greatest part of ...
... told me , that " he was an excellent master , and that his ushers were most of them men of eminence ; that Holbrook , one of the most ingenious men , best scholars , and best preachers of his age , was usher during the greatest part of ...
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... told me , was not works of mere amusement , " not voyages and travels , but all literature , sir , all ancient writers , all manly : though but little Greek , only some of Anacreon and Hesiod ; but in this irregular manner , " added he ...
... told me , was not works of mere amusement , " not voyages and travels , but all literature , sir , all ancient writers , all manly : though but little Greek , only some of Anacreon and Hesiod ; but in this irregular manner , " added he ...
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... told Dr. Burney that he never wrote any of his works that were printed , twice over . Dr. Burney's wonder at seeing several pages of his " Lives of the Poets , " in manuscript , with scarce a blot or erasure , drew this observation from ...
... told Dr. Burney that he never wrote any of his works that were printed , twice over . Dr. Burney's wonder at seeing several pages of his " Lives of the Poets , " in manuscript , with scarce a blot or erasure , drew this observation from ...
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... told by Tursellinus , in his " Life of St. Ignatius Loyola , that this intrepid founder of the order of Jesuits , when he arrived at Goa , after having made a severe pilgrimage through the eastern deserts , persisted in wearing his ...
... told by Tursellinus , in his " Life of St. Ignatius Loyola , that this intrepid founder of the order of Jesuits , when he arrived at Goa , after having made a severe pilgrimage through the eastern deserts , persisted in wearing his ...
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