The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides |
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... asked his old school - fellow , Mr. Hector , a surgeon , of Birmingham , if she was not vain of her son . He said , " she nay , rather , it does not appear whether he offended at all . The case was evidently dismissed by the magistrates ...
... asked his old school - fellow , Mr. Hector , a surgeon , of Birmingham , if she was not vain of her son . He said , " she nay , rather , it does not appear whether he offended at all . The case was evidently dismissed by the magistrates ...
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... preacher . Mr. Hammond asked Mr. Johnson how he could possibly think of bringing such an infant to church , 1 Works , vol . vi . , p . 406 . and in the midst of so great a crowd . AT . 3 . 13 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... preacher . Mr. Hammond asked Mr. Johnson how he could possibly think of bringing such an infant to church , 1 Works , vol . vi . , p . 406 . and in the midst of so great a crowd . AT . 3 . 13 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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... asked , if he could remember Queen Anne , - " He had , " he said , " a confused , but somehow a sort of solemn " Dr. Swinfen told me " -so Johnson says in his own Account of his Early Life , p . 12- " that the scrofulous sores which ...
... asked , if he could remember Queen Anne , - " He had , " he said , " a confused , but somehow a sort of solemn " Dr. Swinfen told me " -so Johnson says in his own Account of his Early Life , p . 12- " that the scrofulous sores which ...
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... asked him to bor- row for her , from his father , a bible in that character . When he was going to Oxford , she came to take leave of him , brought him , in the simplicity of her kindness , a present of gingerbread , and said he was the ...
... asked him to bor- row for her , from his father , a bible in that character . When he was going to Oxford , she came to take leave of him , brought him , in the simplicity of her kindness , a present of gingerbread , and said he was the ...
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... asked . Now , sir , if a boy could answer every question , there would be no need of a master to teach him . " It is , however , but justice to the memory of Mr. Hunter to mention , that though he might err in being too severe , the ...
... asked . Now , sir , if a boy could answer every question , there would be no need of a master to teach him . " It is , however , but justice to the memory of Mr. Hunter to mention , that though he might err in being too severe , the ...
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