The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.P.F. Collier and Son, 1901 - Hebrides (Scotland) |
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... kind of weather rather than another . There are people , I believe , who feel a difference ; but I am not one of them . And as to regular meals , I have fasted from the Sunday's dinner to the Tuesday's dinner without any in- convenience ...
... kind of weather rather than another . There are people , I believe , who feel a difference ; but I am not one of them . And as to regular meals , I have fasted from the Sunday's dinner to the Tuesday's dinner without any in- convenience ...
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... kind- ness of disposition very rare at an advanced age . He observed , " how wonderful it was that they had both been in London forty years , without having ever once met , and both walkers in the street too ! " Mr. Edwards , when going ...
... kind- ness of disposition very rare at an advanced age . He observed , " how wonderful it was that they had both been in London forty years , without having ever once met , and both walkers in the street too ! " Mr. Edwards , when going ...
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... kind of force , to bring it on . His ' Vicar of Wakefield ' I myself did not think would have had much success . It was written and sold to a bookseller before his ' Traveller , ' but published after ; so little ex- pectation had the ...
... kind of force , to bring it on . His ' Vicar of Wakefield ' I myself did not think would have had much success . It was written and sold to a bookseller before his ' Traveller , ' but published after ; so little ex- pectation had the ...
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... kind as to superintend the press while I was in Scotland , and the first part of the second edition was printing . He would not allow me to ascribe it to its proper author ; but , as it is exquisitely acute and elegant , I take this ...
... kind as to superintend the press while I was in Scotland , and the first part of the second edition was printing . He would not allow me to ascribe it to its proper author ; but , as it is exquisitely acute and elegant , I take this ...
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... kind , in reference to the Dun . clad , made in Sir Joshua's presence , though not at his house , some years before ( see antè , Vol . II . p . 18. Johnson's playful retort seems so much less offensive than fifty others , that Boswell ...
... kind , in reference to the Dun . clad , made in Sir Joshua's presence , though not at his house , some years before ( see antè , Vol . II . p . 18. Johnson's playful retort seems so much less offensive than fifty others , that Boswell ...
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