“The” Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order, a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons, and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published: ...G. Routledge & Company, Farringdon Street, 1857 - 300 pages |
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... desire to see you , a sufficient reason for hastening your return . The longer we live , and the more we think , the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and of friends . Parents we can have but once ...
... desire to see you , a sufficient reason for hastening your return . The longer we live , and the more we think , the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and of friends . Parents we can have but once ...
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... desire to know any thing of us . However , I will tell you that THE CLUB subsists ; but we have the loss of Burke's company since he has been engaged in public business , in which he has gained more repu- tation than perhaps any man at ...
... desire to know any thing of us . However , I will tell you that THE CLUB subsists ; but we have the loss of Burke's company since he has been engaged in public business , in which he has gained more repu- tation than perhaps any man at ...
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... desire , and she with the utmost activity and kindness , procured a long list of names . At length the work was published , in which is a fine written , but gloomy tale of Dr. Johnson . The money Mrs. Williams had various uses for , and ...
... desire , and she with the utmost activity and kindness , procured a long list of names . At length the work was published , in which is a fine written , but gloomy tale of Dr. Johnson . The money Mrs. Williams had various uses for , and ...
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... desires , are a little influenced by his favourite studies . My zeal for languages may seem , perhaps , rather over- heated , even to those by whom I desire to be well esteemed . To those who have nothing in their thoughts but trade or ...
... desires , are a little influenced by his favourite studies . My zeal for languages may seem , perhaps , rather over- heated , even to those by whom I desire to be well esteemed . To those who have nothing in their thoughts but trade or ...
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... desire to learn , they will naturally have recourse to the nearest language by which that desire can be gratified ; and one will tell another that if he would attain knowledge , he must learn English . " This speculation may , perhaps ...
... desire to learn , they will naturally have recourse to the nearest language by which that desire can be gratified ; and one will tell another that if he would attain knowledge , he must learn English . " This speculation may , perhaps ...
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