The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished. In Three VolumesHenry Baldwin, 1793 |
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... London . " Sir , ( faid Johnson ) in a country fo commercial as ours , where every man can do for himself , there is not fo much occafion for that attachment . No man is thought the worfe of here , whose brother was hanged . In ...
... London . " Sir , ( faid Johnson ) in a country fo commercial as ours , where every man can do for himself , there is not fo much occafion for that attachment . No man is thought the worfe of here , whose brother was hanged . In ...
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... London this fpring , I was with him at several other times , both by himself and in company . I dined with him one day at the Crown and Anchor tavern , in the Strand , with Lord Elibank , Mr. Langton , and Dr. Vanfittart of Oxford ...
... London this fpring , I was with him at several other times , both by himself and in company . I dined with him one day at the Crown and Anchor tavern , in the Strand , with Lord Elibank , Mr. Langton , and Dr. Vanfittart of Oxford ...
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... London this year , I confulted him upon a question purely of Scotch law . It was held of old , and continued for a long period , to be an established principle in that law , that whoever intermeddled with the effects of a perfon ...
... London this year , I confulted him upon a question purely of Scotch law . It was held of old , and continued for a long period , to be an established principle in that law , that whoever intermeddled with the effects of a perfon ...
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... . " " I had still some thoughts , while the fummer lafted , of being obliged to go to London on fome little bufinefs ; otherwife I fhould certainly have trouble 3 • Etat . 63 . 1772. troubled him with a letter DR . JOHNSON . 63 1772. ...
... . " " I had still some thoughts , while the fummer lafted , of being obliged to go to London on fome little bufinefs ; otherwife I fhould certainly have trouble 3 • Etat . 63 . 1772. troubled him with a letter DR . JOHNSON . 63 1772. ...
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... London , Feb. 24 , 1773 . " SAM . JOHNSON . 1773 . Etat . 64 . " You continue to stand very high in the favour of Mrs. Thrale . " On Saturday , April 3 , the day after my arrival in London this year , I went to his house late in the ...
... London , Feb. 24 , 1773 . " SAM . JOHNSON . 1773 . Etat . 64 . " You continue to stand very high in the favour of Mrs. Thrale . " On Saturday , April 3 , the day after my arrival in London this year , I went to his house late in the ...
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