The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2Harper, 1859 |
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Page 11
... attention to various minute particulars . Being the only memorial of this tour that | remains , my readers , I am confident , will peruse it with pleasure , though his notes are very short , and evidently written only to assist his own ...
... attention to various minute particulars . Being the only memorial of this tour that | remains , my readers , I am confident , will peruse it with pleasure , though his notes are very short , and evidently written only to assist his own ...
Page 19
... attention to him than to Johnson ; but this latter assertion could not be true , for Johnson , in his letter to Mr. Levet ( ante , p . 9 ) , speaks highly and cor- dially of Baretti many days after the supposed offence . Miss Reynolds ...
... attention to him than to Johnson ; but this latter assertion could not be true , for Johnson , in his letter to Mr. Levet ( ante , p . 9 ) , speaks highly and cor- dially of Baretti many days after the supposed offence . Miss Reynolds ...
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... attention to any branch of the family . Indeed , you have so much of the true Highland cordiality , that I am sure you would have thought me to blame if I jesuit , born at Ragusa in 1711 , who first introdu- ced the Newtonian philosophy ...
... attention to any branch of the family . Indeed , you have so much of the true Highland cordiality , that I am sure you would have thought me to blame if I jesuit , born at Ragusa in 1711 , who first introdu- ced the Newtonian philosophy ...
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... attention , and they will die imperceptibly away . Fix your thoughts upon your business , fill your intervals with company , and sunshine will again break in upon your mind . If you will come to me , you must come very quickly ; and ...
... attention , and they will die imperceptibly away . Fix your thoughts upon your business , fill your intervals with company , and sunshine will again break in upon your mind . If you will come to me , you must come very quickly ; and ...
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... attention to veracity ; being always resolved to relate every fact as it stood , he looked even on the smaller parts of life with minute attention , and re- membered such passages as escape cursory and common observers . His p . 234 ...
... attention to veracity ; being always resolved to relate every fact as it stood , he looked even on the smaller parts of life with minute attention , and re- membered such passages as escape cursory and common observers . His p . 234 ...
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