The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2G. Allen & Unwin, 1924 |
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... excellent instance would it have been of the oppression of booksellers towards poor au- thours ! " ( smiling ) . Davies , zealous for the honour of the Trade , said , Gardner was not properly a bookseller . JOHNSON . " Nay , Sir ; he ...
... excellent instance would it have been of the oppression of booksellers towards poor au- thours ! " ( smiling ) . Davies , zealous for the honour of the Trade , said , Gardner was not properly a bookseller . JOHNSON . " Nay , Sir ; he ...
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... excellent person , my intimacy with whom was the more valuable to me , because my first acquaintance with him was unexpected and unsolicited . Soon after the publication of my " Account of Corsica , " he did me the honour to call on me ...
... excellent person , my intimacy with whom was the more valuable to me , because my first acquaintance with him was unexpected and unsolicited . Soon after the publication of my " Account of Corsica , " he did me the honour to call on me ...
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... excellent order , and was attended by honest Francis with a most civil assiduity . I asked him whether I might go to a consultation with another lawyer upon Sunday , as 2 Cor . et Ad . - Line 16 : On 1746 put the following note : - " My ...
... excellent order , and was attended by honest Francis with a most civil assiduity . I asked him whether I might go to a consultation with another lawyer upon Sunday , as 2 Cor . et Ad . - Line 16 : On 1746 put the following note : - " My ...
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... excellent dissertation on general principles of morals and law . " A letter to him on the interesting subject of the family settlement , which I had read . 1 Mistake for 1776 . I wrote to Dr. Johnson on the 20th of February 64 THE LIFE ...
... excellent dissertation on general principles of morals and law . " A letter to him on the interesting subject of the family settlement , which I had read . 1 Mistake for 1776 . I wrote to Dr. Johnson on the 20th of February 64 THE LIFE ...
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... excellent . Johnson censured him for taking down a church which might have stood many years , and building a new one at a different place , for no other reason but that there might be a direct road to a new bridge ; and his expression ...
... excellent . Johnson censured him for taking down a church which might have stood many years , and building a new one at a different place , for no other reason but that there might be a direct road to a new bridge ; and his expression ...
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