The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides |
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Page iii
... PUBLISHED : THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT - BRITAIN , FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY , DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED . Br JAMES BOSWELL , Esq . Quo fit ut OMNIS Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella VITA ...
... PUBLISHED : THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT - BRITAIN , FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY , DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED . Br JAMES BOSWELL , Esq . Quo fit ut OMNIS Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella VITA ...
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... published in 8vo . , by Kearsley . It ran through several editions . The author of this anonymous sketch was William Cooke , afterwards known by the name of Conversation Cooke , from a poem of his entitled Conversation . " The author ...
... published in 8vo . , by Kearsley . It ran through several editions . The author of this anonymous sketch was William Cooke , afterwards known by the name of Conversation Cooke , from a poem of his entitled Conversation . " The author ...
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... published at London , 1778 , as “ An Analysis of the Gaelic Language . " Encouraged by the success with which , he says , his labours were received , he conceived the plan of " a Collection of all the Vocables in the Gaelic Language ...
... published at London , 1778 , as “ An Analysis of the Gaelic Language . " Encouraged by the success with which , he says , his labours were received , he conceived the plan of " a Collection of all the Vocables in the Gaelic Language ...
Page viii
... published by Mr. Shaw in 1784 . In answer to an appeal which Shaw addressed2 to Johnson , " to state the facts at large , which first led you to a discovery of this monstrous imposition , to rescue your Gallic ( sic ) coad- jutors from ...
... published by Mr. Shaw in 1784 . In answer to an appeal which Shaw addressed2 to Johnson , " to state the facts at large , which first led you to a discovery of this monstrous imposition , to rescue your Gallic ( sic ) coad- jutors from ...
Page ix
... published in 1785 , the next book which occupied the attention of the world was " The Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson , LL.D. , during the last twenty years of his life , by Hesther Lynch Piozzi . " From a letter of Walpole's , in ...
... published in 1785 , the next book which occupied the attention of the world was " The Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson , LL.D. , during the last twenty years of his life , by Hesther Lynch Piozzi . " From a letter of Walpole's , in ...
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