The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 |
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... respect , your obliged and obedient servant , " MARGARET BOSWELL . " The death of Mr. Thrale had made a very material alteration with respect to Johnson's reception in that family . The manly authority of the husband no longer curbed ...
... respect , your obliged and obedient servant , " MARGARET BOSWELL . " The death of Mr. Thrale had made a very material alteration with respect to Johnson's reception in that family . The manly authority of the husband no longer curbed ...
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... respect was thus acknowledged : " TO THE REVEREND MR . WILSON , CLITHEROE , LANCASHIRE . " 31st December , 1782 . " REVEREND SIR , -That I have long omitted to return you thanks for the honour conferred upon me by your dedication , I ...
... respect was thus acknowledged : " TO THE REVEREND MR . WILSON , CLITHEROE , LANCASHIRE . " 31st December , 1782 . " REVEREND SIR , -That I have long omitted to return you thanks for the honour conferred upon me by your dedication , I ...
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... entertaining Journal , much curious information , respecting persons and things , which he will in vain seek for in other books of the same period . - MALONE . to imagine , were there no written state of his 56 1783. - ETAT . 74 .
... entertaining Journal , much curious information , respecting persons and things , which he will in vain seek for in other books of the same period . - MALONE . to imagine , were there no written state of his 56 1783. - ETAT . 74 .
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... respect . Johnson , I know not upon what degree of investigation , entertained no exalted opinion of his lordship's intellectual cha- racter . Talking of him to me one day , he said , " It is wonderful , sir , with how little real ...
... respect . Johnson , I know not upon what degree of investigation , entertained no exalted opinion of his lordship's intellectual cha- racter . Talking of him to me one day , he said , " It is wonderful , sir , with how little real ...
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... respect , our com- " " The justness of this remark is confirmed by the following story , for which I am indebted to Lord Eliot : -A country parson , who was remarkable for quoting scraps of Latin in his sermons , having died , one of ...
... respect , our com- " " The justness of this remark is confirmed by the following story , for which I am indebted to Lord Eliot : -A country parson , who was remarkable for quoting scraps of Latin in his sermons , having died , one of ...
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