The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 - Hebrides (Scotland) |
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... history of his life this year is little more than a mournful recital of the variations of his illness , in the midst of which , however , it will appear from his letters that the powers of his mind were in no degree im- paired . " TO ...
... history of his life this year is little more than a mournful recital of the variations of his illness , in the midst of which , however , it will appear from his letters that the powers of his mind were in no degree im- paired . " TO ...
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... history is mournful . The spring of last year deprived me of Thrale , a man whose eye for fifteen years had scarcely been turned upon me but with respect or tenderness ; for such another friend , the general course of human things will ...
... history is mournful . The spring of last year deprived me of Thrale , a man whose eye for fifteen years had scarcely been turned upon me but with respect or tenderness ; for such another friend , the general course of human things will ...
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... history of your life since your accession to your estate ; -how many houses , how many cows , how much land in your own hand , and what bargains you make with your tenants . * * * * * * " Of my ' Lives of the Poets ' they have printed a ...
... history of your life since your accession to your estate ; -how many houses , how many cows , how much land in your own hand , and what bargains you make with your tenants . * * * * * * " Of my ' Lives of the Poets ' they have printed a ...
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... history 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 ...
... history 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 ...
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... History of Whalley . " Viro Reverendo Thomæ Wilson STB ecclesiæ de Clitheroe , ministro - sodali jucundissimo - gxa0208a insigni - felici juvenum institutori . " Mr. Wilson died in 1813 , aged sixty- seven . - J . H. MARKLAND . ] him ...
... History of Whalley . " Viro Reverendo Thomæ Wilson STB ecclesiæ de Clitheroe , ministro - sodali jucundissimo - gxa0208a insigni - felici juvenum institutori . " Mr. Wilson died in 1813 , aged sixty- seven . - J . H. MARKLAND . ] him ...
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