The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.W. P. Ninno, Hay & Mitchell, 1890 - 562 pages |
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... Gentleman , a circumstance of which an ignorant panegyrist has praised him for not being proud ; when the This rabbi , a Spaniard , died in 1240 . truth is , that the appellation of Gentleman , though now lost in the indiscriminate ...
... Gentleman , a circumstance of which an ignorant panegyrist has praised him for not being proud ; when the This rabbi , a Spaniard , died in 1240 . truth is , that the appellation of Gentleman , though now lost in the indiscriminate ...
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... gentleman of Shropshire , one of his school- fellows , spontaneously undertaken to support him at Oxford in the character of his com- panion : though , in fact , he never received any assistance whatever from that gentleman . He ...
... gentleman of Shropshire , one of his school- fellows , spontaneously undertaken to support him at Oxford in the character of his com- panion : though , in fact , he never received any assistance whatever from that gentleman . He ...
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... Gentleman's Magazine . One of them is a translation of My time , O ye Muses , was happily spent , ' etc. He died August 3d , 1751 , and a monument to his me- mory has been erected in the Cathedral of Lichfield , with an inscription ...
... Gentleman's Magazine . One of them is a translation of My time , O ye Muses , was happily spent , ' etc. He died August 3d , 1751 , and a monument to his me- mory has been erected in the Cathedral of Lichfield , with an inscription ...
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... gentleman of very ancient family in Staffordshire , from which , after the death of his elder brother , he inherited ... Gentleman's Magazine , December 1784 , p . 967 . -BOSWELL . B in every respect , and he complained grievously ...
... gentleman of very ancient family in Staffordshire , from which , after the death of his elder brother , he inherited ... Gentleman's Magazine , December 1784 , p . 967 . -BOSWELL . B in every respect , and he complained grievously ...
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... Gentleman's Magazine : - ' TO MR . CAVE . Nov. 25 , 1734 . ' SIR , -As you appear no less sensible than your readers of the defects of your poetical article , you will not be displeased if , in order to the improvement of it , I ...
... Gentleman's Magazine : - ' TO MR . CAVE . Nov. 25 , 1734 . ' SIR , -As you appear no less sensible than your readers of the defects of your poetical article , you will not be displeased if , in order to the improvement of it , I ...
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