Life of JohnsonOxford University Press, 1980 - 1492 pages This minute account of the life of the great eighteenth-century thinker and writer is probably the most famous biography in the English language. |
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Part of a Review of Graingers Sugar Cane a Poem in the London | 16 |
The False Alarm acknowl | 431 |
Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falklands Islands | 450 |
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