The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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Page 75
... pounds a year , the time in which he might have learnt to talk ; and now he cannot talk . " Mr. Perkins made a shrewd and droll remark : " If he had got his four thousand a year as a mountebank , he might have learnt to talk at the same ...
... pounds a year , the time in which he might have learnt to talk ; and now he cannot talk . " Mr. Perkins made a shrewd and droll remark : " If he had got his four thousand a year as a mountebank , he might have learnt to talk at the same ...
Page 77
... pounds , which was the legacy given to each of his executors . I could not but be somewhat diverted by hearing Johnson talk in a pompous manner of his new office , and particularly of the concerns of the brewery , which it was at last ...
... pounds , which was the legacy given to each of his executors . I could not but be somewhat diverted by hearing Johnson talk in a pompous manner of his new office , and particularly of the concerns of the brewery , which it was at last ...
Page 89
... pounds . " WILKES . " How can it be possible to spend that money in Scot- land ? " JOHNSON . " Why , sir , the money may be spent in England ; but there is a harder question . If one man in Scotland gets possession of two thousand pounds ...
... pounds . " WILKES . " How can it be possible to spend that money in Scot- land ? " JOHNSON . " Why , sir , the money may be spent in England ; but there is a harder question . If one man in Scotland gets possession of two thousand pounds ...
Page 105
... pounds of subscription money for his Universal Passion , but had lost it in the South Sea " . Dr. Johnson thought this must be a mistake , for he had never seen a subscription book . Upon the road we talked of the uncertainty of profit ...
... pounds of subscription money for his Universal Passion , but had lost it in the South Sea " . Dr. Johnson thought this must be a mistake , for he had never seen a subscription book . Upon the road we talked of the uncertainty of profit ...
Page 114
... additional circumstance before them , reversed their own judgement , made a seri- ous matter of this dull and foolish joke , and adjudged Mr. Robertson to pay to the society five pounds sterling money 114 [ 1781 . THE LIFE OF.
... additional circumstance before them , reversed their own judgement , made a seri- ous matter of this dull and foolish joke , and adjudged Mr. Robertson to pay to the society five pounds sterling money 114 [ 1781 . THE LIFE OF.
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