The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 |
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... tell you , who do not care , nor desire to know . I dined with Mr. Paradise on Monday , with the Bishop of St. Asaph yesterday , with the Bishop of Chester I dine to - day , and with the academy on Saturday , with Mr. Hoole on Monday ...
... tell you , who do not care , nor desire to know . I dined with Mr. Paradise on Monday , with the Bishop of St. Asaph yesterday , with the Bishop of Chester I dine to - day , and with the academy on Saturday , with Mr. Hoole on Monday ...
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... telling you that he has been much informed and gratified . I wish 6 This venerable mansion has since [ Sept. 1793 ] been totally destroyed by fire . - MALONE . [ There is a popular superstition that this inheritance is ac- cursed , for ...
... telling you that he has been much informed and gratified . I wish 6 This venerable mansion has since [ Sept. 1793 ] been totally destroyed by fire . - MALONE . [ There is a popular superstition that this inheritance is ac- cursed , for ...
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... history during the years 1745 and 1746 were known , something would probably be found to account for this ( as it now seems ) absurd national aversion . -ED . ] It was , mitted that he could not tell the 1783. - ÆTAT . 74 . 47.
... history during the years 1745 and 1746 were known , something would probably be found to account for this ( as it now seems ) absurd national aversion . -ED . ] It was , mitted that he could not tell the 1783. - ÆTAT . 74 . 47.
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James Boswell John Wilson Croker. It was , mitted that he could not tell the reason . however , probably owing to his having had in his view the worst part of the Scottish nation , the needy adventurers ' , many of whom he thought were ...
James Boswell John Wilson Croker. It was , mitted that he could not tell the reason . however , probably owing to his having had in his view the worst part of the Scottish nation , the needy adventurers ' , many of whom he thought were ...
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... tell him not to come ? Am I to be hunted in this manner ? " I satisfied him that I I could not divine that the visit would not be con- venient , and that I certainly could not take it upon me of my own accord to forbid the general . I ...
... tell him not to come ? Am I to be hunted in this manner ? " I satisfied him that I I could not divine that the visit would not be con- venient , and that I certainly could not take it upon me of my own accord to forbid the general . I ...
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