The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 |
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... hand at parting , I was rather down . When I came hither , I ate my dinner well , but was so harassed by the cough , that Mr. Strahan said , it was an extremity which he could not have believed without the sensible and true avouch ' of ...
... hand at parting , I was rather down . When I came hither , I ate my dinner well , but was so harassed by the cough , that Mr. Strahan said , it was an extremity which he could not have believed without the sensible and true avouch ' of ...
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... hand , and what bargains you make with your tenants . * * * * * * " Of my ' Lives of the Poets ' they have printed a new edition in octavo , I hear , of three thousand . Did I give a set to Lord Hailes ? If I did not , I will do it out ...
... hand , and what bargains you make with your tenants . * * * * * * " Of my ' Lives of the Poets ' they have printed a new edition in octavo , I hear , of three thousand . Did I give a set to Lord Hailes ? If I did not , I will do it out ...
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... hands , and do not suppose that I shall ever see my name with regret where you shall think it proper to be put . " I think it , however , my duty to inform a writer who intends me so great an honour , that in my opinion he would have ...
... hands , and do not suppose that I shall ever see my name with regret where you shall think it proper to be put . " I think it , however , my duty to inform a writer who intends me so great an honour , that in my opinion he would have ...
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... hands . " I doubt whether he heard this remark . While we went on talking triumphantly , I was fixed in admiration ... hand . ” It has been observed and wondered at , that Mr. Charles Fox never talked with any freedom in the presence ...
... hands . " I doubt whether he heard this remark . While we went on talking triumphantly , I was fixed in admiration ... hand . ” It has been observed and wondered at , that Mr. Charles Fox never talked with any freedom in the presence ...
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... hand - writing of a suicide of fashion , Sir D. O. , some years ago , lying on the table of the room where he had destroyed himself . The suicide was a man of classical acquirements : he left no other paper behind him . " Another of ...
... hand - writing of a suicide of fashion , Sir D. O. , some years ago , lying on the table of the room where he had destroyed himself . The suicide was a man of classical acquirements : he left no other paper behind him . " Another of ...
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