The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2Harper, 1859 |
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... learned Greek . - BOSWELL . [ Mr. Lang- ton was an enthusiast about Greek . - ED . ] 6 Wife of the Reverend Mr. Kenneth Macau . lay , author of " The History of St. Kilda . " BOSWELL . would try to serve her son at Oxford . I LIFE ...
... learned Greek . - BOSWELL . [ Mr. Lang- ton was an enthusiast about Greek . - ED . ] 6 Wife of the Reverend Mr. Kenneth Macau . lay , author of " The History of St. Kilda . " BOSWELL . would try to serve her son at Oxford . I LIFE ...
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... learned part of me . I hope to set him hereafter a better example . " ED This coolness soon ended , as the next letter informs us : " DR . JOHNSON TO MRS . THRALE . Letters , p . 290 . " Ashbourne , 21st July , 1775 . " You and ...
... learned part of me . I hope to set him hereafter a better example . " ED This coolness soon ended , as the next letter informs us : " DR . JOHNSON TO MRS . THRALE . Letters , p . 290 . " Ashbourne , 21st July , 1775 . " You and ...
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... learned there ; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other . " " More is learned in publick than in pri- vate schools , from emulation ; there is the collision of mind with mind , or the radia- tion of many minds ...
... learned there ; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other . " " More is learned in publick than in pri- vate schools , from emulation ; there is the collision of mind with mind , or the radia- tion of many minds ...
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... learned and lively con- versation we were much pleased . He gave us an invitation to dinner , which Dr. John- son told me was a high honour . " Sir , it is a great thing to dine with the canons of Christ - Church . " We could not accept ...
... learned and lively con- versation we were much pleased . He gave us an invitation to dinner , which Dr. John- son told me was a high honour . " Sir , it is a great thing to dine with the canons of Christ - Church . " We could not accept ...
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... learned diction improves by time . " Piozzi , p . 130 . In the afternoon , as we were driven rap- idly along in the post - chaise , he said to me , " Life has not many things better than this 4. " [ He loved indeed the very act of ...
... learned diction improves by time . " Piozzi , p . 130 . In the afternoon , as we were driven rap- idly along in the post - chaise , he said to me , " Life has not many things better than this 4. " [ He loved indeed the very act of ...
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