“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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... reasons , good or bad , which have made me such a sparing and ungrateful correspondent . Be assured , for the present , that nothing has lessened either the esteem or love with which I dismissed you at Harwich . Both have been increased ...
... reasons , good or bad , which have made me such a sparing and ungrateful correspondent . Be assured , for the present , that nothing has lessened either the esteem or love with which I dismissed you at Harwich . Both have been increased ...
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... 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 ; and he promises himself too ...
... 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 ; and he promises himself too ...
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... reason , faith , and conscience , all our own . " He added , “ These are all of which I can be sure . " They bear a small proportion to the whole , which consists of four hundred and thirty - eight verses . Goldsmith , in the couplet ...
... reason , faith , and conscience , all our own . " He added , “ These are all of which I can be sure . " They bear a small proportion to the whole , which consists of four hundred and thirty - eight verses . Goldsmith , in the couplet ...
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... reason . I have seldom indulged more hope of any thing than of being able to improve our acquaintance to friendship . Many a time have I placed myself again at Langton , and imagined the pleasure with which I should walk to Partney 3 in ...
... reason . I have seldom indulged more hope of any thing than of being able to improve our acquaintance to friendship . Many a time have I placed myself again at Langton , and imagined the pleasure with which I should walk to Partney 3 in ...
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... reason to think he lost by them ; however , they furnished him with no further assistance towards his house- keeping , than grass for his horses ( not hay , for that I know he bought ) , and for two cows . Every Monday morning he ...
... reason to think he lost by them ; however , they furnished him with no further assistance towards his house- keeping , than grass for his horses ( not hay , for that I know he bought ) , and for two cows . Every Monday morning he ...
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