The Personal History of Samuel JohnsonLongman, 1971 - 364 pages |
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... practice ; but his application was turned down . And it was with a kind of despairing relief that he accepted an invitation from Edmund Hector to go and stay with him in Birmingham . Hector , like Taylor , indeed like most of Sam's ...
... practice ; but his application was turned down . And it was with a kind of despairing relief that he accepted an invitation from Edmund Hector to go and stay with him in Birmingham . Hector , like Taylor , indeed like most of Sam's ...
Page 187
... practice of a physician , retired to a small town , does to his practice in a great city . ' Some months later , however , he was urged not to give up writing alto- gether for conversation by a man whose encouragement he found it more ...
... practice of a physician , retired to a small town , does to his practice in a great city . ' Some months later , however , he was urged not to give up writing alto- gether for conversation by a man whose encouragement he found it more ...
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... practice was not suitable to them ' . This was a subject on which Johnson held strong views , as might well have been expected from the concern that his own failures to keep his resolutions always gave him . He went so far as to give ...
... practice was not suitable to them ' . This was a subject on which Johnson held strong views , as might well have been expected from the concern that his own failures to keep his resolutions always gave him . He went so far as to give ...
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