The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2Harper, 1859 |
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... wrote to you , to tell you that I was just come home from a ramble , and hoped that I should have heard from you . I am afraid winter has laid hold on your fingers , and hinders you from writing . However , let somebody write , if you ...
... wrote to you , to tell you that I was just come home from a ramble , and hoped that I should have heard from you . I am afraid winter has laid hold on your fingers , and hinders you from writing . However , let somebody write , if you ...
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... wrote any more after this time , I know not ; but probably not much , as he 1 The writing is so bad here , that the names of several of the animals could not be deciphered without much more acquaintance with natural history than I ...
... wrote any more after this time , I know not ; but probably not much , as he 1 The writing is so bad here , that the names of several of the animals could not be deciphered without much more acquaintance with natural history than I ...
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... 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 you se- verely sometimes my imagination , which is upon occasions ...
... 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 you se- verely sometimes my imagination , which is upon occasions ...
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... wrote upon the subject may be understood , it is necessary to give a state of the question , which I shall do as briefly as I can . In the year 1504 , the barony or manour of Auchinleck ( pronounced Affleck ) in Ayr- shire , which ...
... wrote upon the subject may be understood , it is necessary to give a state of the question , which I shall do as briefly as I can . In the year 1504 , the barony or manour of Auchinleck ( pronounced Affleck ) in Ayr- shire , which ...
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... wrote concerning the question which perplexed me so much , his lordship wrote to me : " Your scruples have produced more fruit than I ever expected from them ; an excellent dissertation on ge- neral principles of morals and law . " I wrote ...
... wrote concerning the question which perplexed me so much , his lordship wrote to me : " Your scruples have produced more fruit than I ever expected from them ; an excellent dissertation on ge- neral principles of morals and law . " I wrote ...
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