“The” Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J.M. Dent, 1949 |
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... honour to the judgement and liberal spirit of that learned body . Johnson acknowledged the favour in a letter to Dr. Leland , one of their number ; but I have not been able to obtain a copy of it.1 He appears this year to have been ...
... honour to the judgement and liberal spirit of that learned body . Johnson acknowledged the favour in a letter to Dr. Leland , one of their number ; but I have not been able to obtain a copy of it.1 He appears this year to have been ...
Page 366
... honour , but it would do nobody else honour . I have , indeed , not read it all . But when I take up the end of a web , and find it pack thread , I do not expect , by looking further , to find embroidery . Sir , I will venture to say ...
... honour , but it would do nobody else honour . I have , indeed , not read it all . But when I take up the end of a web , and find it pack thread , I do not expect , by looking further , to find embroidery . Sir , I will venture to say ...
Page 537
... honour , in the same manner as I have traced his obtaining that of Master of Arts . To the Reverend Dr. Fothergill , Vice - Chancellor of the University of Oxford , to be communicated to the Heads of Houses , and proposed in Convocation ...
... honour , in the same manner as I have traced his obtaining that of Master of Arts . To the Reverend Dr. Fothergill , Vice - Chancellor of the University of Oxford , to be communicated to the Heads of Houses , and proposed in Convocation ...
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