The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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Page 39
... wish to go and live three years at Otaheité , or New Zealand , in order to obtain a full acquaintance with people so totally different from all that we have ever known , and be satisfied what pure nature can do for man . JOHNSON ...
... wish to go and live three years at Otaheité , or New Zealand , in order to obtain a full acquaintance with people so totally different from all that we have ever known , and be satisfied what pure nature can do for man . JOHNSON ...
Page 54
... wish , if possible , to bring Dr. Johnson and Mr. Wilkes together . How to manage it , was a nice and difficult matter . 66 My worthy booksellers and friends , Messieurs Dilly in the Poultry , at whose hospitable and well covered table ...
... wish , if possible , to bring Dr. Johnson and Mr. Wilkes together . How to manage it , was a nice and difficult matter . 66 My worthy booksellers and friends , Messieurs Dilly in the Poultry , at whose hospitable and well covered table ...
Page 66
... wish , will serve to give a notion of a very curious inter- view , which was not only pleasing at the time , but had the agreeable and benignant effect of reconciling any animosity , and sweetening any acidity , which , in the va- rious ...
... wish , will serve to give a notion of a very curious inter- view , which was not only pleasing at the time , but had the agreeable and benignant effect of reconciling any animosity , and sweetening any acidity , which , in the va- rious ...
Page 71
... wish you all happy . Do not teach the young ones to dislike me , as you dislike me yourself ; but let me at least have Vero- nica's kindness , because she is my acquaintance . " Besides this Latin epitaph , Johnson honoured the memory ...
... wish you all happy . Do not teach the young ones to dislike me , as you dislike me yourself ; but let me at least have Vero- nica's kindness , because she is my acquaintance . " Besides this Latin epitaph , Johnson honoured the memory ...
Page 77
... wish you would look more into his book ; and as lord Mountstuart wishes much to find a proper person to con- tinue the work upon Granger's plan , and has desired I would mention it to you , if such a man occurs , please to let me know ...
... wish you would look more into his book ; and as lord Mountstuart wishes much to find a proper person to con- tinue the work upon Granger's plan , and has desired I would mention it to you , if such a man occurs , please to let me know ...
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