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: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished. In Three VolumesHenry Baldwin, 1793 |
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... young gentleman , his fon . I mentioned that I had in my poffeffion the Lite of Sir Robert Sibbald , the celebrated Scottish an- tiquary , and founder of the Royal College of Phyficians at Edinburgh , in the original manufcript in his ...
... young gentleman , his fon . I mentioned that I had in my poffeffion the Lite of Sir Robert Sibbald , the celebrated Scottish an- tiquary , and founder of the Royal College of Phyficians at Edinburgh , in the original manufcript in his ...
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... Young , who pined for preferment , talks with contempt of it in his writings , and affects to despise every thing that he did not despise . " BISHOP OF ST . ASAPH . " He was like other chap- lains , looking for vacancies : but that is ...
... Young , who pined for preferment , talks with contempt of it in his writings , and affects to despise every thing that he did not despise . " BISHOP OF ST . ASAPH . " He was like other chap- lains , looking for vacancies : but that is ...
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... young man in Ballinocrazy , " Who wanted a wife for to make him unaify . " Goldsmith being mentioned , Johnson obferved that it was long before his merit came to be ac- knowledged . That he once complained to him , in ludicrous terms of ...
... young man in Ballinocrazy , " Who wanted a wife for to make him unaify . " Goldsmith being mentioned , Johnson obferved that it was long before his merit came to be ac- knowledged . That he once complained to him , in ludicrous terms of ...
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... young fowls ; the proper feafons of different vegetables ; and then how to roaft and boil , and compound . " DILLY . Mrs. Glaffe's Cookery , ' which is the beft , was writ- ten by Dr. Hill . Half the trade know this . " JOHNSON . " Well ...
... young fowls ; the proper feafons of different vegetables ; and then how to roaft and boil , and compound . " DILLY . Mrs. Glaffe's Cookery , ' which is the beft , was writ- ten by Dr. Hill . Half the trade know this . " JOHNSON . " Well ...
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... young wo- man several times , mentioning fomething about the right to an old houfe , advifing application to be made to an attorney , which was done ; and , at the fame time , faying the attorney would . do nothing , which proved to be ...
... young wo- man several times , mentioning fomething about the right to an old houfe , advifing application to be made to an attorney , which was done ; and , at the fame time , faying the attorney would . do nothing , which proved to be ...
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