The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2Harper, 1859 |
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... 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 Po- ems , each a shilling ; I would be glad to have them . " Make my compliments to ...
... 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 Po- ems , each a shilling ; I would be glad to have them . " Make my compliments to ...
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... believe none more warm or sincere than those of , dear sir , your most affection- ate , " SAM . JOHNSON . " " TO MRS . LUCY PORTER , IN LICHFIELD 2 . " 16th November , 1775 . " DEAR MADAM , -This week I came home from Paris . I have ...
... believe none more warm or sincere than those of , dear sir , your most affection- ate , " SAM . JOHNSON . " " TO MRS . LUCY PORTER , IN LICHFIELD 2 . " 16th November , 1775 . " DEAR MADAM , -This week I came home from Paris . I have ...
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... believe , all round . 66 We passed through Place de Vendôme , a fine square , about as big as Hanover- square - Inhabited by the high families- Louis XIV . on horseback in the middle 5 . " Monville is the son of a farmer - general 1 ...
... believe , all round . 66 We passed through Place de Vendôme , a fine square , about as big as Hanover- square - Inhabited by the high families- Louis XIV . on horseback in the middle 5 . " Monville is the son of a farmer - general 1 ...
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... believe , are found in but few travellers , es- pecially at an advanced age . They com- pletely refute the idle notion which has been propagated , that he could not see1 ; and , if he had taken the trouble to revise 4 [ Miss Reynolds ...
... believe , are found in but few travellers , es- pecially at an advanced age . They com- pletely refute the idle notion which has been propagated , that he could not see1 ; and , if he had taken the trouble to revise 4 [ Miss Reynolds ...
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... believe you will never find . I am afraid of scruples . " I have now sent all Lord Hailes's pa- pers ; part I found hidden in a drawer in which I had laid them for security , and had forgotten them . Part of these are written twice ; I ...
... believe you will never find . I am afraid of scruples . " I have now sent all Lord Hailes's pa- pers ; part I found hidden in a drawer in which I had laid them for security , and had forgotten them . Part of these are written twice ; I ...
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