The Personal History of Samuel JohnsonLongman, 1971 - 364 pages |
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... church and sit in the family pew beside his tall , devout father who was a magistrate now as well as a Brother of the Corporation and thus required to wear a gown - which would not have been at all displeasing to Michael Johnson , for ...
... church and sit in the family pew beside his tall , devout father who was a magistrate now as well as a Brother of the Corporation and thus required to wear a gown - which would not have been at all displeasing to Michael Johnson , for ...
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... Church than he had done in the college . Another friend was John Fludger , also a Scholar , who , so Johnson declared , ' turned out a scoundrel , a Whig and said he was ashamed of having been bred at Oxford .... But he had been a ...
... Church than he had done in the college . Another friend was John Fludger , also a Scholar , who , so Johnson declared , ' turned out a scoundrel , a Whig and said he was ashamed of having been bred at Oxford .... But he had been a ...
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... church and ' was composed ' . To be composed in church was for him an unusual occurrence that merited comment in his journal ; for usually he was so disturbed and restless that he found it impossible to sit still . That morning , in ...
... church and ' was composed ' . To be composed in church was for him an unusual occurrence that merited comment in his journal ; for usually he was so disturbed and restless that he found it impossible to sit still . That morning , in ...
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