The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Derby, 1826 |
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Page 74
... believe with a serious intention that they should all be collected on his own account , he put it off from year to year , and at last died without having done it perfectly . I have one in his own handwriting , which contains a certain ...
... believe with a serious intention that they should all be collected on his own account , he put it off from year to year , and at last died without having done it perfectly . I have one in his own handwriting , which contains a certain ...
Page 85
... believe , entirely groundless . I have been assured that Johnson said he was not so much as acquainted with Savage when he wrote his London . If the departure mentioned in it was the departure of Savage , the event was not antedated but ...
... believe , entirely groundless . I have been assured that Johnson said he was not so much as acquainted with Savage when he wrote his London . If the departure mentioned in it was the departure of Savage , the event was not antedated but ...
Page 97
... believe , did not make so much noise as was expected , and therefore had not a very extensive circulation . Sir John Hawkins relates , that " warrants were issued , and messengers employed to appre- hend the author ; who , though he had ...
... believe , did not make so much noise as was expected , and therefore had not a very extensive circulation . Sir John Hawkins relates , that " warrants were issued , and messengers employed to appre- hend the author ; who , though he had ...
Page 105
... believe , to doubt the veracity of Cave . It is , however , remarkable , that none of these letters are in the years during which Johnson alone fur- . nished the debates , and one of them is in the very year after he ceased from that ...
... believe , to doubt the veracity of Cave . It is , however , remarkable , that none of these letters are in the years during which Johnson alone fur- . nished the debates , and one of them is in the very year after he ceased from that ...
Page 108
... believe I am going to write a long letter , and have therefore taken a whole sheet of paper . The first thing to be written about is our historical design . " You mentioned the proposal of printing in numbers as an alteration in the ...
... believe I am going to write a long letter , and have therefore taken a whole sheet of paper . The first thing to be written about is our historical design . " You mentioned the proposal of printing in numbers as an alteration in the ...
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