The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. M. Dent, 1925 |
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... attention to his little specimen . The further specimen will show , that ' Even in an Edward he can see desert . ' " It gives me much pleasure to hear that a republication of Isaac Walton's Lives is intended . You have been in a mistake ...
... attention to his little specimen . The further specimen will show , that ' Even in an Edward he can see desert . ' " It gives me much pleasure to hear that a republication of Isaac Walton's Lives is intended . You have been in a mistake ...
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... attention . I had long complained to him that I felt myself discontented in Scotland , as too narrow a sphere , and that I wished to make my chief residence in London , the great scene of ambition , instruction , and amusement : a scene ...
... attention . I had long complained to him that I felt myself discontented in Scotland , as too narrow a sphere , and that I wished to make my chief residence in London , the great scene of ambition , instruction , and amusement : a scene ...
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... attention which you have so long shewn to my health and happiness , makes it as much a debt of gratitude as a call of interest , to give you an account of what befalls me , when accident recovers 1 me from your immediate care . - The ...
... attention which you have so long shewn to my health and happiness , makes it as much a debt of gratitude as a call of interest , to give you an account of what befalls me , when accident recovers 1 me from your immediate care . - The ...
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