The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides |
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... John- son may be satisfactorily ascertained . About Christmas of 1774 - just , therefore , as the " Journey to the Western Islands " was about to leave the press - through the kind offices of their common friend Mr. Elphinston , Shaw ...
... John- son may be satisfactorily ascertained . About Christmas of 1774 - just , therefore , as the " Journey to the Western Islands " was about to leave the press - through the kind offices of their common friend Mr. Elphinston , Shaw ...
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... W. Shaw , A.M. London , 1 Vol . ii . , p . 376 . 2 Ibid . , p . 152 . 3 Memoirs , p . 153 . Ibid . , p . 154. See also Life , vol . iii . , p . 349 . 1781 " ; and when Mr. John Clark of Edinburgh EDITOR'S PREFACE . vii.
... W. Shaw , A.M. London , 1 Vol . ii . , p . 376 . 2 Ibid . , p . 152 . 3 Memoirs , p . 153 . Ibid . , p . 154. See also Life , vol . iii . , p . 349 . 1781 " ; and when Mr. John Clark of Edinburgh EDITOR'S PREFACE . vii.
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... John Clark of Edinburgh attacked he for the opinions he had expressed in the above pam- phlet , there is no doubt that Johnson contributed largely to the " Reply to Mr. Clark's Answers , " London , 1782. Boswell in the " Life " selects ...
... John Clark of Edinburgh attacked he for the opinions he had expressed in the above pam- phlet , there is no doubt that Johnson contributed largely to the " Reply to Mr. Clark's Answers , " London , 1782. Boswell in the " Life " selects ...
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... John- son's friends , to none more than to Boswell . He who was , on the whole , singularly kind , genial , and considerate in his estimate of character , was impelled , reluctantly we believe , to turn aside and animadvert on her not ...
... John- son's friends , to none more than to Boswell . He who was , on the whole , singularly kind , genial , and considerate in his estimate of character , was impelled , reluctantly we believe , to turn aside and animadvert on her not ...
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... John Hawkins now pressed forward to be the biographer of Johnson , and the editor of the first collected edition of his works . He had been appointed , not only the executor of his will , but also , as he tells us in his advertisement ...
... John Hawkins now pressed forward to be the biographer of Johnson , and the editor of the first collected edition of his works . He had been appointed , not only the executor of his will , but also , as he tells us in his advertisement ...
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