The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 6Bell, 1889 |
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... father was not less diligent to lock the door every night , though he saw that any body might walk in at the back ... father's brother , who kept the ring in Smithfield ( where they wrestled and boxed ) for a whole year , and never was ...
... father was not less diligent to lock the door every night , though he saw that any body might walk in at the back ... father's brother , who kept the ring in Smithfield ( where they wrestled and boxed ) for a whole year , and never was ...
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... father Michael died of an inflammatory fever , at the age of seventy - six , as Mr. Johnson told me : their mother at eighty - nine , of a gradual decay . She was slight in her person , he said , and rather below than above the common ...
... father Michael died of an inflammatory fever , at the age of seventy - six , as Mr. Johnson told me : their mother at eighty - nine , of a gradual decay . She was slight in her person , he said , and rather below than above the common ...
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... father's caresses , because he knew they were sure to precede some unpleasing display of his early abilities ; and he used , when neighbours came o ' visiting , to run up a tree that he might not be found and exhibited , such , as no ...
... father's caresses , because he knew they were sure to precede some unpleasing display of his early abilities ; and he used , when neighbours came o ' visiting , to run up a tree that he might not be found and exhibited , such , as no ...
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... father was . Mr. Johnson's mother was daughter to a gentleman in the country , such as there were many of in those days , who possess- ing , perhaps , one or two hundred pounds a year in land , lived on the profits , and sought not to ...
... father was . Mr. Johnson's mother was daughter to a gentleman in the country , such as there were many of in those days , who possess- ing , perhaps , one or two hundred pounds a year in land , lived on the profits , and sought not to ...
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... father , when stroaking the head of the young satirist , Ce petit bon homme ( says he ) n'à point trop d'esprit , mais il ne dira jamais mal de personne . Such are the prognostics formed by men of wit and sense , as these two certainly ...
... father , when stroaking the head of the young satirist , Ce petit bon homme ( says he ) n'à point trop d'esprit , mais il ne dira jamais mal de personne . Such are the prognostics formed by men of wit and sense , as these two certainly ...
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