The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2Harper, 1859 |
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... heard better , I sup- pose I should learn faster . I am , sir , your humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON . " " TO THE SAME . " Paris , 22d October , 1775 . " DEAR SIR , - -We are still here , com- monly very busy in looking about us . We ...
... heard better , I sup- pose I should learn faster . I am , sir , your humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON . " " TO THE SAME . " Paris , 22d October , 1775 . " DEAR SIR , - -We are still here , com- monly very busy in looking about us . We ...
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... heard from you . I am afraid winter has laid hold on your fingers , and hinders you from writing . However , let somebody write , if you cannot , and tell me how you do , and a little of what has hap- pened at Lichfield among our ...
... heard from you . I am afraid winter has laid hold on your fingers , and hinders you from writing . However , let somebody write , if you cannot , and tell me how you do , and a little of what has hap- pened at Lichfield among our ...
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... heard Drunken women - Mrs . Th [ rale ] preferred one to the other . 66 Friday , 20th October . - We saw the queen mount in the forest - Brown habit ; rode aside one lady rode aside - The queen's horse light gray - martingale - She ...
... heard Drunken women - Mrs . Th [ rale ] preferred one to the other . 66 Friday , 20th October . - We saw the queen mount in the forest - Brown habit ; rode aside one lady rode aside - The queen's horse light gray - martingale - She ...
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... heard from him for a longer time than I supposed he would be silent , I wrote to him Dec. 18 , not in good spirits : " Sometimes I have been afraid that the cold which has gone over Europe this year like a sort of pestilence has seized ...
... heard from him for a longer time than I supposed he would be silent , I wrote to him Dec. 18 , not in good spirits : " Sometimes I have been afraid that the cold which has gone over Europe this year like a sort of pestilence has seized ...
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... heard long ago , and did not know but it was redressed . It is unhappy that a practice so erroneous has not been altered ; for altered it must be , or our press will be useless with all its privi- leges . The booksellers , who , like ...
... heard long ago , and did not know but it was redressed . It is unhappy that a practice so erroneous has not been altered ; for altered it must be , or our press will be useless with all its privi- leges . The booksellers , who , like ...
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