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We were other nations made acquainted with the chaso weary of our old King , that we are much racter of the English , by a traveller who has pleased with his successor ; of whom we so nicely inspected our manners , and so sucare so much ...
We were other nations made acquainted with the chaso weary of our old King , that we are much racter of the English , by a traveller who has pleased with his successor ; of whom we so nicely inspected our manners , and so sucare so much ...
Page 121
Johnson : Sir , his style is not English ; the structure Pity is not natural to man . Children are of his sentences is French . Now the French always cruel . Savages are always cruel . structure and the English structure may , in Pity ...
Johnson : Sir , his style is not English ; the structure Pity is not natural to man . Children are of his sentences is French . Now the French always cruel . Savages are always cruel . structure and the English structure may , in Pity ...
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You must shew some learn- man ever attains to a perfeci English proing upon this occasion . You must shew , nunciation . ” Johnson : “ Why , Sir , few that a schoolmaster has a prescriptive right of them do , because they do not ...
You must shew some learn- man ever attains to a perfeci English proing upon this occasion . You must shew , nunciation . ” Johnson : “ Why , Sir , few that a schoolmaster has a prescriptive right of them do , because they do not ...
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| Title | Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Publisher | H. Washbourne, 1857 |
| Length | 580 pages |
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