The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2Harper, 1859 |
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... favour to him , which he thus requests in a letter to me : I intend soon to give you The Life of Robert Bruce , ' which you will be pleased to transmit to Dr. John- son . I wish that you could assist me in a fancy which I have taken ...
... favour to him , which he thus requests in a letter to me : I intend soon to give you The Life of Robert Bruce , ' which you will be pleased to transmit to Dr. John- son . I wish that you could assist me in a fancy which I have taken ...
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... favour of Madame du Barri . - ED . ] 9 [ Before the revolution , the passage from the garden of the Thuilleries into the Place Louis XV . was over a pont tournant , a kind of draw- bridge . - ED . ] 10 [ The English convent of Notre ...
... favour of Madame du Barri . - ED . ] 9 [ Before the revolution , the passage from the garden of the Thuilleries into the Place Louis XV . was over a pont tournant , a kind of draw- bridge . - ED . ] 10 [ The English convent of Notre ...
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... favour me with his friendly opinion and advice . " TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . " London , 15th January , 1776 . " DEAR SIR , —I was much impressed by your letter , and if I can form upon your case any resolution satisfactory to myself ...
... favour me with his friendly opinion and advice . " TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . " London , 15th January , 1776 . " DEAR SIR , —I was much impressed by your letter , and if I can form upon your case any resolution satisfactory to myself ...
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... favour ? Must they be passed by upon moral princi- ples forever , because they were once ex- cluded by a legal prohibition ? Or may that which passed only to males by one law , pass likewise to females by another ? " You mention your ...
... favour ? Must they be passed by upon moral princi- ples forever , because they were once ex- cluded by a legal prohibition ? Or may that which passed only to males by one law , pass likewise to females by another ? " You mention your ...
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... favour , are enough inclined to think the practice of printing and selling books by any but themselves an encroachment on the rights of their fraternity ; and have need of stronger inducements to circulate aca- demical publications than ...
... favour , are enough inclined to think the practice of printing and selling books by any but themselves an encroachment on the rights of their fraternity ; and have need of stronger inducements to circulate aca- demical publications than ...
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