The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 |
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... present it can do , and I am going slyly to take a place in the coach for Wednes- day , and you or my sweet Queeney will fetch me on Thursday , and see what you can make of me . 66 To - day I am going to dine with Dr. Wheeler , and to ...
... present it can do , and I am going slyly to take a place in the coach for Wednes- day , and you or my sweet Queeney will fetch me on Thursday , and see what you can make of me . 66 To - day I am going to dine with Dr. Wheeler , and to ...
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... present life seems hardly worthy of all those principles of con- duct and maxims of prudence which one generation of men has transmitted to another ; but upon a closer view , when it is per- ceived how much evil is produced and how much ...
... present life seems hardly worthy of all those principles of con- duct and maxims of prudence which one generation of men has transmitted to another ; but upon a closer view , when it is per- ceived how much evil is produced and how much ...
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... present is small , but it is given with good - will by , reverend sir , your most , & c . " SAM . JOHNSON . " In 1783 he was more severely afflicted than ever , as will appear in the course of his correspondence ; but still the same ...
... present is small , but it is given with good - will by , reverend sir , your most , & c . " SAM . JOHNSON . " In 1783 he was more severely afflicted than ever , as will appear in the course of his correspondence ; but still the same ...
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... present royal family has no friends has been too much justified by the very ungrateful behaviour of many who were under great obligations to his majesty : at the same time there are honourable exceptions ; and the very next year after ...
... present royal family has no friends has been too much justified by the very ungrateful behaviour of many who were under great obligations to his majesty : at the same time there are honourable exceptions ; and the very next year after ...
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... present , that in France as soon as a man of fashion marries , he takes an opera girl into keeping ; and this he mentioned as a gene- [ What could General Oglethorpe mean by saying that " the house of com- mons had usurped the power of ...
... present , that in France as soon as a man of fashion marries , he takes an opera girl into keeping ; and this he mentioned as a gene- [ What could General Oglethorpe mean by saying that " the house of com- mons had usurped the power of ...
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