The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 6Bell, 1889 |
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... thing highly sauced , and calls for his boiled chicken at the close of many years spent in the search of dainties ; the connoisseurs are soon weary of Rubens , and the critics of Lucan ; and the refinements of every kind heaped upon ...
... thing highly sauced , and calls for his boiled chicken at the close of many years spent in the search of dainties ; the connoisseurs are soon weary of Rubens , and the critics of Lucan ; and the refinements of every kind heaped upon ...
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... thing that presented itself to the mind of an ingenious and learned friend whom I had the pleasure to pass some time ... things beyond the capacity of other babies , a keen sensibility of right and wrong , 1 Vol . i . , p . 184 . and a ...
... thing that presented itself to the mind of an ingenious and learned friend whom I had the pleasure to pass some time ... things beyond the capacity of other babies , a keen sensibility of right and wrong , 1 Vol . i . , p . 184 . and a ...
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... thing of himself too , but it is one which every body has heard as well as I : how , when he was about nine years ... things for which they might not perhaps have either taste or necessity . You teach your daughters the diameters of the ...
... thing of himself too , but it is one which every body has heard as well as I : how , when he was about nine years ... things for which they might not perhaps have either taste or necessity . You teach your daughters the diameters of the ...
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... thing more that Dr. Johnson said about baby- hood before I quit the subject ; it was this : " That little people should be encouraged always to tell whatever they hear particu- larly striking , to some brother , sister , or servant ...
... thing more that Dr. Johnson said about baby- hood before I quit the subject ; it was this : " That little people should be encouraged always to tell whatever they hear particu- larly striking , to some brother , sister , or servant ...
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... thing so very particular , that I begged his leave to write it down directly , before anything could intervene that ... thing worth your pains ; so if you will get the pen and ink , I will repeat to you Anacreon's Dove directly ; but ...
... thing so very particular , that I begged his leave to write it down directly , before anything could intervene that ... thing worth your pains ; so if you will get the pen and ink , I will repeat to you Anacreon's Dove directly ; but ...
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