The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2Harper, 1859 |
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... Remarks made in a Tour through some of the Northern Parts of Eu- rope , by Nathaniel Wraxall , jun . " - ED . ] 5 A learned Greek . - BOSWELL . [ Mr. Lang- ton was an enthusiast about Greek . - ED . ] 6 Wife of the Reverend Mr. Kenneth ...
... Remarks made in a Tour through some of the Northern Parts of Eu- rope , by Nathaniel Wraxall , jun . " - ED . ] 5 A learned Greek . - BOSWELL . [ Mr. Lang- ton was an enthusiast about Greek . - ED . ] 6 Wife of the Reverend Mr. Kenneth ...
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... remark . I cannot pretend to tell the publick any thing of a place better known to many of my readers than to myself . We can talk of it when we meet . " I shall go next week to Streatham , from whence I purpose to send a parcel of the ...
... remark . I cannot pretend to tell the publick any thing of a place better known to many of my readers than to myself . We can talk of it when we meet . " I shall go next week to Streatham , from whence I purpose to send a parcel of the ...
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... remark is the stranger , because it would seem that his intercourse while in Paris was almost exclusively with persons of this middle class ; but it must be observed , that his intercourse and his consequent sources of infor- mation ...
... remark is the stranger , because it would seem that his intercourse while in Paris was almost exclusively with persons of this middle class ; but it must be observed , that his intercourse and his consequent sources of infor- mation ...
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... remarks on dress , & c . were the result of very close in- spection of the object , partly from curiosity , and partly from a desire of exciting admiration of his perspicuity , of which he was not a little ambi- tious ...
... remarks on dress , & c . were the result of very close in- spection of the object , partly from curiosity , and partly from a desire of exciting admiration of his perspicuity , of which he was not a little ambi- tious ...
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... remarks - He could not see .'-- But it was observed that he could inquire -'yes , ' and it was by the answers he received that he was misled , for he asked what did the first jockey wear ? answer , green ; what the second ? green ; what ...
... remarks - He could not see .'-- But it was observed that he could inquire -'yes , ' and it was by the answers he received that he was misled , for he asked what did the first jockey wear ? answer , green ; what the second ? green ; what ...
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