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It is a method that several have been pleased to take , as I could shew , but I if he is inclined to buy it ; but I doubt think myself under a restraint . I shall whether he will or not . He would dispose so far , that I have had some ...
It is a method that several have been pleased to take , as I could shew , but I if he is inclined to buy it ; but I doubt think myself under a restraint . I shall whether he will or not . He would dispose so far , that I have had some ...
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I at length renewed a correspondence place ; and I was pleased with the dignity wish to appear considerable in his native which had been too long discontinued : conferred by such a testimony of your re66 TO DR . JOHNSON . gard .
I at length renewed a correspondence place ; and I was pleased with the dignity wish to appear considerable in his native which had been too long discontinued : conferred by such a testimony of your re66 TO DR . JOHNSON . gard .
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“ DEAR SIR , " Mr. Philips is one of my old friends ; “ It has pleased God , by a paralytic and as I anı of opinion that neither he nor stroke in the night , to deprive me of speech . his daughter will do any thing that can dis“ I am ...
“ DEAR SIR , " Mr. Philips is one of my old friends ; “ It has pleased God , by a paralytic and as I anı of opinion that neither he nor stroke in the night , to deprive me of speech . his daughter will do any thing that can dis“ I am ...
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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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