The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides |
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... March 14 , 1777 , he says , that " one Shaw , who seems a modest and a decent man , has written an Erse grammar , which a very learned Highlander , Mr. Macbean , has , at my request , examined and approved . " The grammar was still in ...
... March 14 , 1777 , he says , that " one Shaw , who seems a modest and a decent man , has written an Erse grammar , which a very learned Highlander , Mr. Macbean , has , at my request , examined and approved . " The grammar was still in ...
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... March , 1786. The sale was rapid . It is said that when the king sent for a copy of the " Anecdotes " on the evening of the day of publication , not a single copy was to be had . Though printed in London , the " Anecdotes " had been ...
... March , 1786. The sale was rapid . It is said that when the king sent for a copy of the " Anecdotes " on the evening of the day of publication , not a single copy was to be had . Though printed in London , the " Anecdotes " had been ...
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... March , 1737 , he was the son of a second - hand bookseller in Southwark . His access to books , which he enjoyed from an early age , seems to have been his chief education . He appears to have been essentially a self - educated man ...
... March , 1737 , he was the son of a second - hand bookseller in Southwark . His access to books , which he enjoyed from an early age , seems to have been his chief education . He appears to have been essentially a self - educated man ...
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... March , 1712 , two hundred persons were touched by Queen Anne . - Wright . Anecdotes , p . 10 . C recollection of a lady in diamonds , and a long ÆT . 3 . 17 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON . Taken to London to be touched by Queen Anne.
... March , 1712 , two hundred persons were touched by Queen Anne . - Wright . Anecdotes , p . 10 . C recollection of a lady in diamonds , and a long ÆT . 3 . 17 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON . Taken to London to be touched by Queen Anne.
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... march through life , was not assumed from vanity and ostentation , but was the natural and constant effect of those extraordinary powers of mind , of which he could not but be conscious by comparison ; the intellectual difference ...
... march through life , was not assumed from vanity and ostentation , but was the natural and constant effect of those extraordinary powers of mind , of which he could not but be conscious by comparison ; the intellectual difference ...
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