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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... Perhaps no scrap of Latin whatever has been more quoted than this . occasionally falls even from those who are scrupulous even to pedantry in their Latinity , and will not admit a word into their compositions , which has not the The ...
... Perhaps no scrap of Latin whatever has been more quoted than this . occasionally falls even from those who are scrupulous even to pedantry in their Latinity , and will not admit a word into their compositions , which has not the The ...
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... perhaps , or from the spirit of con- tradiction , eagerly maintained that Derrick had merit as a writer . Mr. Morgann At length he had recourse to this device . Pray , argued with him directly , in vain . Sir , ( said he , ) whether do ...
... perhaps , or from the spirit of con- tradiction , eagerly maintained that Derrick had merit as a writer . Mr. Morgann At length he had recourse to this device . Pray , argued with him directly , in vain . Sir , ( said he , ) whether do ...
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... perhaps with common pomatum , and make it fra- grant . The oil does not fly off in the drying . " BOSWELL . " I wish to have a good walled garden . " JOHNSON . “ I don't think it would be worth the expence to you . We compute in England ...
... perhaps with common pomatum , and make it fra- grant . The oil does not fly off in the drying . " BOSWELL . " I wish to have a good walled garden . " JOHNSON . “ I don't think it would be worth the expence to you . We compute in England ...
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... the head when they saw I could do nothing . " BoS WELL . " Perhaps they Cor . et Ad . - Line 27 : For " births are " read " the register of births proves . " would have taken care of you ; we are told 18 THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON .
... the head when they saw I could do nothing . " BoS WELL . " Perhaps they Cor . et Ad . - Line 27 : For " births are " read " the register of births proves . " would have taken care of you ; we are told 18 THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON .
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... there was for- merly ; for it is universally diffused . You have , perhaps , no man who knows as much Greek and Latin as Bentley ; or no man who knows as much mathematicks as Newton ; but you have THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . 23.
... there was for- merly ; for it is universally diffused . You have , perhaps , no man who knows as much Greek and Latin as Bentley ; or no man who knows as much mathematicks as Newton ; but you have THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . 23.
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