The Personal History of Samuel JohnsonLongman, 1971 - 364 pages |
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... died .... I commended ( so far as it was lawful ) Tetty , dear Tetty , in a prayer by herself , then my other ... died . On what we did amiss , and our faults were great , I have thought of late with more regret than at any other time ...
... died .... I commended ( so far as it was lawful ) Tetty , dear Tetty , in a prayer by herself , then my other ... died . On what we did amiss , and our faults were great , I have thought of late with more regret than at any other time ...
Page 181
... died without providing for Hester as he had promised to do , then of Sir Lynch Cotton , and finally of her brother - in - law , Thomas Salusbury , who had married an heiress and agreed to give the child an allowance of £ 200 a year and ...
... died without providing for Hester as he had promised to do , then of Sir Lynch Cotton , and finally of her brother - in - law , Thomas Salusbury , who had married an heiress and agreed to give the child an allowance of £ 200 a year and ...
Page 307
... died of downright eating , and had not a Surgeon been got to administer to him without delay a glister he must have died . After this he took to a milk diet , and improved so much in his health that he became quite a new man and beat ...
... died of downright eating , and had not a Surgeon been got to administer to him without delay a glister he must have died . After this he took to a milk diet , and improved so much in his health that he became quite a new man and beat ...
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