The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 3Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, 1888 - Authors, English |
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... dear , take care to guard against bad habits . ' This I was told by the young lady's brother at Margate . " " observes to me , ) in the First Eclogue of Mantuanus , DE HONESTO AMORE , & c . Id commune malum ; semel insanivimus omnes ...
... dear , take care to guard against bad habits . ' This I was told by the young lady's brother at Margate . " " observes to me , ) in the First Eclogue of Mantuanus , DE HONESTO AMORE , & c . Id commune malum ; semel insanivimus omnes ...
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... dear Sir , surely that was shocking .'— ' Why , then , Sir , ( he replied , ) you have never seen Brentford . ' 66 ' Though his usual phrase for conversation was talk , yet he made a distinction ; for when he once told me that he dined ...
... dear Sir , surely that was shocking .'— ' Why , then , Sir , ( he replied , ) you have never seen Brentford . ' 66 ' Though his usual phrase for conversation was talk , yet he made a distinction ; for when he once told me that he dined ...
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... dear , Friend . I therefore with peculiar pleasure give to the world a just and elegant compliment thus paid to his Lordship by Johnson . CHARADE . My first shuts out thieves from your house or your room , My second expresses a Syrian ...
... dear , Friend . I therefore with peculiar pleasure give to the world a just and elegant compliment thus paid to his Lordship by Johnson . CHARADE . My first shuts out thieves from your house or your room , My second expresses a Syrian ...
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... dear Sir , what a man must you have been without religion ! Why you must have gone on drinking , and swearing , and- " JOHNSON . ( with a smile ) " I drank enough and swore enough , to be sure . " SEWARD . " One should think that ...
... dear Sir , what a man must you have been without religion ! Why you must have gone on drinking , and swearing , and- " JOHNSON . ( with a smile ) " I drank enough and swore enough , to be sure . " SEWARD . " One should think that ...
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... DEAR SIR , -The gentleman who waits on you with this , is Mr. Cruikshanks , who wishes to succeed his friend Dr. Hunter , as Professor of Anatomy in the Royal Academy . His qualifications are very generally known , and it adds dignity ...
... DEAR SIR , -The gentleman who waits on you with this , is Mr. Cruikshanks , who wishes to succeed his friend Dr. Hunter , as Professor of Anatomy in the Royal Academy . His qualifications are very generally known , and it adds dignity ...
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