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... learned Highlander , Mr. Macbean , has , at my request , examined and approved . " The grammar was still in manu- script , but its publication had been recommended by formal proposals , a parcel of which were forwarded to Boswell . The ...
... learned Highlander , Mr. Macbean , has , at my request , examined and approved . " The grammar was still in manu- script , but its publication had been recommended by formal proposals , a parcel of which were forwarded to Boswell . The ...
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... learned com- munications to me regarding the books printed and published in Scotland before the Union , and other points of literary history ; Mr. David Douglas , for his curious information re- garding Hume and Boswell's house in James ...
... learned com- munications to me regarding the books printed and published in Scotland before the Union , and other points of literary history ; Mr. David Douglas , for his curious information re- garding Hume and Boswell's house in James ...
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... learned , and the ingenious ; all these qualities I can , in perfect confidence of not being accused of flattery , ascribe to you . If a man may indulge an honest pride , in having it known to the world that he has been thought worthy ...
... learned , and the ingenious ; all these qualities I can , in perfect confidence of not being accused of flattery , ascribe to you . If a man may indulge an honest pride , in having it known to the world that he has been thought worthy ...
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... learned and in- genious men , by which I have been enabled to rectify some mistakes , and to enrich the work with many valuable additions . These I have ordered to be printed separately in quarto , for the accommodation of the ...
... learned and in- genious men , by which I have been enabled to rectify some mistakes , and to enrich the work with many valuable additions . These I have ordered to be printed separately in quarto , for the accommodation of the ...
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... learned friend , the Rev. Dr. Kearney , formerly senior Fellow of Trinity College , Dublin , and now beneficed in the diocese of Raphoe , in Ireland , of which he is archdeacon . Of a work which has been before the public for thirteen ...
... learned friend , the Rev. Dr. Kearney , formerly senior Fellow of Trinity College , Dublin , and now beneficed in the diocese of Raphoe , in Ireland , of which he is archdeacon . Of a work which has been before the public for thirteen ...
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acquaintance Adams admirable afterwards Anecdotes appears Bishop bookseller born Boswell Boswell's Cave character Clodio conversation copy Croker David Garrick DEAR SIR death Dictionary died Dodsley doubt Earl Edward Cave eminent endeavoured English Essay excellent father favour Garrick gave Gentleman's Magazine Goldsmith happy heard Hector Hervey honour hope humble servant James Boswell kind labour lady Langton late Latin learned letter Lichfield literary lived London Lord Chesterfield Lucy Porter Malone manner master mentioned merit mind Miss never obliged observed occasion opinion Oxford paper Paul Whitehead Pembroke College person pleased pleasure poem poet printed published Rambler recollected remarkable Richard Savage Robert Dodsley Samuel Johnson satire Savage Shakspeare Sir John Hawkins suppose talk thing Thomas Warton thought tion told translation verses Walmsley Warton wish write written wrote