The Personal History of Samuel JohnsonLongman, 1971 - 364 pages |
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... nevertheless strict , the boys being required to speak to each other in Latin when walking in the streets of the town and being flogged for failing to do so . Sam seems to have helped in the teaching of the younger boys in return for ...
... nevertheless strict , the boys being required to speak to each other in Latin when walking in the streets of the town and being flogged for failing to do so . Sam seems to have helped in the teaching of the younger boys in return for ...
Page 40
... nevertheless pro- ceed with their own design , they decided in the end not to do so . Instead Johnson undertook to make a translation of a commentary on Pope by the Swiss theologian , Jean Pierre de Crousaz ; and this , although there ...
... nevertheless pro- ceed with their own design , they decided in the end not to do so . Instead Johnson undertook to make a translation of a commentary on Pope by the Swiss theologian , Jean Pierre de Crousaz ; and this , although there ...
Page 64
... nevertheless , ' had as much of the poet about him as most writers ' and was as worthy of being quoted as several others whose works Johnson consulted to discover examples of the good usage of words to be included in his dictionary ...
... nevertheless , ' had as much of the poet about him as most writers ' and was as worthy of being quoted as several others whose works Johnson consulted to discover examples of the good usage of words to be included in his dictionary ...
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