The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides |
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Page vi
... 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 manu- script , but its publication had been ...
... 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 manu- script , but its publication had been ...
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... seems to be no record of the subsequent history of this able and vigorous man . From a letter of Johnson to Boswell , " we learn that Shaw had sought Johnson's help to obtain for him , through Lord Eglinton , a chaplaincy in one of the ...
... seems to be no record of the subsequent history of this able and vigorous man . From a letter of Johnson to Boswell , " we learn that Shaw had sought Johnson's help to obtain for him , through Lord Eglinton , a chaplaincy in one of the ...
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... seem to see the monk whom Sterne sketches at the opening of the " Senti- mental Journey " — mild , pale , penetrating - so Boswell's 1 Hayward's Piozzi , vol . i . , p . 291 . 2 Ibid . , p . 291 . equally graphic description of Mrs ...
... seem to see the monk whom Sterne sketches at the opening of the " Senti- mental Journey " — mild , pale , penetrating - so Boswell's 1 Hayward's Piozzi , vol . i . , p . 291 . 2 Ibid . , p . 291 . equally graphic description of Mrs ...
Page x
... seems to have been marred by a flippancy which recurs too often in her pages . But all this notwithstanding , her active kindnesses to Johnson , continued for nearly twenty years of his life , should be remembered to her credit by all ...
... seems to have been marred by a flippancy which recurs too often in her pages . But all this notwithstanding , her active kindnesses to Johnson , continued for nearly twenty years of his life , should be remembered to her credit by all ...
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... seems to have been the occupation of the re- maining years of his life . In 1793 he printed the second edition , in three volumes , octavo ; and before it was issued from the press he prefixed to the first volume of that edi- tion ...
... seems to have been the occupation of the re- maining years of his life . In 1793 he printed the second edition , in three volumes , octavo ; and before it was issued from the press he prefixed to the first volume of that edi- tion ...
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