The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2Harper, 1859 |
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... Scotland , he can make no figure in our Universities . The schools in the north , I believe , are cheap , and when I was a young man , were eminently good . " There are two little books published by the Foulis , Telemachus and Collins's ...
... Scotland , he can make no figure in our Universities . The schools in the north , I believe , are cheap , and when I was a young man , were eminently good . " There are two little books published by the Foulis , Telemachus and Collins's ...
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... Scotland , I wrote three letters to him , from which I extract the following passages : " I have seen Lord Hailes since I came down . He thinks it wonderful that you are pleased to take so much pains in revising his Annals . ' I told ...
... Scotland , I wrote three letters to him , from which I extract the following passages : " I have seen Lord Hailes since I came down . He thinks it wonderful that you are pleased to take so much pains in revising his Annals . ' I told ...
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... . JOHNSON . " What he mentions in such light terms 2 Another parcel of Lord Hailes's " Annals of Scotland . " - BOSWELL . 3 Where Sr Joshua Reynolds lived . - Bos- WELL . as , " I am to set out to - 1775. - ÆTAT . 66 .
... . JOHNSON . " What he mentions in such light terms 2 Another parcel of Lord Hailes's " Annals of Scotland . " - BOSWELL . 3 Where Sr Joshua Reynolds lived . - Bos- WELL . as , " I am to set out to - 1775. - ÆTAT . 66 .
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... Scotland in every thing but climate . Nature has done more for the French ; but they have done less for themselves than the Scotch have done 3. " 1 [ See ante , p . 13.—ED. ] en 2 [ Nay , she actually performed the operation herself ...
... Scotland in every thing but climate . Nature has done more for the French ; but they have done less for themselves than the Scotch have done 3. " 1 [ See ante , p . 13.—ED. ] en 2 [ Nay , she actually performed the operation herself ...
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... Scotland , granted it to Thomas Boswell , a branch of an ancient family in the county of Fife , styling him in the char- ter , " dilecto familiari nostro ; " and assign- ing as the cause of the grant , " pro bono et fideli servitio ...
... Scotland , granted it to Thomas Boswell , a branch of an ancient family in the county of Fife , styling him in the char- ter , " dilecto familiari nostro ; " and assign- ing as the cause of the grant , " pro bono et fideli servitio ...
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