The Personal History of Samuel JohnsonLongman, 1971 - 364 pages |
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Page 84
... daughter of Zachariah Williams , an apothecary who had persuaded himself that he had discovered the means of ascertaining longitude at sea by magnetism . Hoping to make his name by his discovery , he had come with his daughter to London ...
... daughter of Zachariah Williams , an apothecary who had persuaded himself that he had discovered the means of ascertaining longitude at sea by magnetism . Hoping to make his name by his discovery , he had come with his daughter to London ...
Page 181
... daughter of an ineffectual , ill - tempered and improvident Welsh gentleman who had soon run through the estate left him by his father , John Salusbury , a descendant of Richard Clough , and had been obliged to move to a small cottage ...
... daughter of an ineffectual , ill - tempered and improvident Welsh gentleman who had soon run through the estate left him by his father , John Salusbury , a descendant of Richard Clough , and had been obliged to move to a small cottage ...
Page 300
... daughter said , ' immovable as a noble statue , upon the hearth , as if a stranger to the whole set ' , until Johnson - already exasperated by the repeated per- formances of a protégé of Burney's , an Italian singer - had burst out ...
... daughter said , ' immovable as a noble statue , upon the hearth , as if a stranger to the whole set ' , until Johnson - already exasperated by the repeated per- formances of a protégé of Burney's , an Italian singer - had burst out ...
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