The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2Harper, 1859 |
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... whole I cannot make much acquaintance here ; and though the churches , palaces , and some private houses are very magnifi- cent , there is no very great pleasure after having seen many , in seeing more ; at least the pleasure , whatever ...
... whole I cannot make much acquaintance here ; and though the churches , palaces , and some private houses are very magnifi- cent , there is no very great pleasure after having seen many , in seeing more ; at least the pleasure , whatever ...
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... whole journey remarka- bly well . My fellow - travellers were the same whom you saw at Lichfield , only we took Baretti with us . Paris is not so fine a place as you would expect . The palaces and churches , however , are very splendid ...
... whole journey remarka- bly well . My fellow - travellers were the same whom you saw at Lichfield , only we took Baretti with us . Paris is not so fine a place as you would expect . The palaces and churches , however , are very splendid ...
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... whole furniture said to have cost 125,0007 . -Damask hangings covered with pictures -Porphyry - This house struck me- -Then we waited on the ladies to Monville's- Captain Irwin with us 10 Spain - County towns all beggars - At Dijon he ...
... whole furniture said to have cost 125,0007 . -Damask hangings covered with pictures -Porphyry - This house struck me- -Then we waited on the ladies to Monville's- Captain Irwin with us 10 Spain - County towns all beggars - At Dijon he ...
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... whole com- pany at the monastery - In the library , Be- roald - Cymon - Titus , from Boccace- Oratio Proverbialis to the Virgin , from Petrarch ; Falkland to Sandys - Dryden's Preface to the third vol . of Miscellanies 7 . " Thursday ...
... whole com- pany at the monastery - In the library , Be- roald - Cymon - Titus , from Boccace- Oratio Proverbialis to the Virgin , from Petrarch ; Falkland to Sandys - Dryden's Preface to the third vol . of Miscellanies 7 . " Thursday ...
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... whole Christmas , with the general dis- order , of which the worst effect was a cough , which is now much mitigated , though the country , on which I look from a window at Streatham , is now covered with a deep snow . Mrs. Williams is ...
... whole Christmas , with the general dis- order , of which the worst effect was a cough , which is now much mitigated , though the country , on which I look from a window at Streatham , is now covered with a deep snow . Mrs. Williams is ...
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