The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides |
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... honoured with the intimate friendship of Dr. Johnson , to whose memory he is ambitious to erect a literary monument , worthy of so great an author and so excellent a man . " We rejoice to think that one quarto did not suffice ; two ...
... honoured with the intimate friendship of Dr. Johnson , to whose memory he is ambitious to erect a literary monument , worthy of so great an author and so excellent a man . " We rejoice to think that one quarto did not suffice ; two ...
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... Honour- able John Wilson Croker , in five handsomely printed volumes ( Murray , 1831 ) . Mr. Croker had many of the qualities which fitted him to excel as the editor of such an edition of Boswell's " Life " as the lapse of time demanded ...
... Honour- able John Wilson Croker , in five handsomely printed volumes ( Murray , 1831 ) . Mr. Croker had many of the qualities which fitted him to excel as the editor of such an edition of Boswell's " Life " as the lapse of time demanded ...
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... Honours at home and abroad on account of the Dictionary 242 1755 . Æt . 46 . Some of his definitions excused He contributes to the Universal Visitor His defence of Tea . He pleads the cause of Admiral Byng And the Literary Magazine 1759 ...
... Honours at home and abroad on account of the Dictionary 242 1755 . Æt . 46 . Some of his definitions excused He contributes to the Universal Visitor His defence of Tea . He pleads the cause of Admiral Byng And the Literary Magazine 1759 ...
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... honoured . That reception has excited my best exertions to render my book more perfect ; and in this endeavour I have ... honour to the press of Mr. Henry Baldwin , now Master of the Worshipful Company of Stationers , whom I have long ...
... honoured . That reception has excited my best exertions to render my book more perfect ; and in this endeavour I have ... honour to the press of Mr. Henry Baldwin , now Master of the Worshipful Company of Stationers , whom I have long ...
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... honoured me . Sir Walter Scott , whose personal kindness to me and indefatigable good - nature to every body were surpassed only by his genius , found time from his higher occupations to annotate a considerable portion of this work ...
... honoured me . Sir Walter Scott , whose personal kindness to me and indefatigable good - nature to every body were surpassed only by his genius , found time from his higher occupations to annotate a considerable portion of this work ...
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