The Personal History of Samuel JohnsonLongman, 1971 - 364 pages |
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... clergyman ; the boys , required to communicate with each other only in Greek or Latin during school hours , were instructed by Johnson out of Lillie's Grammar ; and it was hard to say ' whose difficulty was the greater ' , Johnson ...
... clergyman ; the boys , required to communicate with each other only in Greek or Latin during school hours , were instructed by Johnson out of Lillie's Grammar ; and it was hard to say ' whose difficulty was the greater ' , Johnson ...
Page 69
... clergyman on a visit to England was told a story that was ' proof of ' Johnson's being always ' very correct both in his conduct and language ' . It was a story concerning Dr Robert James , whose Medicinal Dictionary Johnson had helped ...
... clergyman on a visit to England was told a story that was ' proof of ' Johnson's being always ' very correct both in his conduct and language ' . It was a story concerning Dr Robert James , whose Medicinal Dictionary Johnson had helped ...
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... clergyman , is not easy , I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain . I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls . . . . I ought to have been a lawyer1 ...
... clergyman , is not easy , I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain . I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls . . . . I ought to have been a lawyer1 ...
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