The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 |
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... morning to my bed - side came dear Sir Richard [ Jebb ] . I told him of the opium , and he approved it , and told me , if I went to Oxford , which he rather advised , that I should strengthen the constitution by the bark , tame the ...
... morning to my bed - side came dear Sir Richard [ Jebb ] . I told him of the opium , and he approved it , and told me , if I went to Oxford , which he rather advised , that I should strengthen the constitution by the bark , tame the ...
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... morning ; a complaint under which he had long laboured having suddenly come to a crisis , while I was upon a visit at the seat of Sir Charles Preston , from whence I had hastened the day before , upon receiving a letter by express ...
... morning ; a complaint under which he had long laboured having suddenly come to a crisis , while I was upon a visit at the seat of Sir Charles Preston , from whence I had hastened the day before , upon receiving a letter by express ...
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... morning . I am , dear sir , yours , & c . " SAM . JOHNSON . " In answer to my next letter , I received one from him , dissuading me from hastening to him as I had proposed . What is proper for publication is the fol- lowing paragraph ...
... morning . I am , dear sir , yours , & c . " SAM . JOHNSON . " In answer to my next letter , I received one from him , dissuading me from hastening to him as I had proposed . What is proper for publication is the fol- lowing paragraph ...
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... morning without solicitude for noon , or lain down at night without fore- seeing with terror the distresses of the morning . My debts were small but many ; my creditors were poor , and therefore troublesome . Of this misery your ...
... morning without solicitude for noon , or lain down at night without fore- seeing with terror the distresses of the morning . My debts were small but many ; my creditors were poor , and therefore troublesome . Of this misery your ...
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... morning devotions somewhat , I think , enlarged . Being earlier than the family , I read St. Paul's fare- well in the Acts , and then read fortuitously in the Gospels , which was my parting use of the library . " And in one of his ...
... morning devotions somewhat , I think , enlarged . Being earlier than the family , I read St. Paul's fare- well in the Acts , and then read fortuitously in the Gospels , which was my parting use of the library . " And in one of his ...
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