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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... land , " and wrote a few notes on the margin with red ink , which he bade me tell his Lordship did not sink into the paper , and might be wiped off with a wet sponge , so that he did not spoil his manuscript . I told him there were very ...
... land , " and wrote a few notes on the margin with red ink , which he bade me tell his Lordship did not sink into the paper , and might be wiped off with a wet sponge , so that he did not spoil his manuscript . I told him there were very ...
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... land , trades to a certain extent in corn or in cattle ; and in the land itself , undoubtedly . His steward acts for him , and so do clerks for a great merchant . A Judge may be a farmer ; but he is not to geld his own pigs . A Judge ...
... land , trades to a certain extent in corn or in cattle ; and in the land itself , undoubtedly . His steward acts for him , and so do clerks for a great merchant . A Judge may be a farmer ; but he is not to geld his own pigs . A Judge ...
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... lands in the ceded islands , which were estimated at 200,000l . more . Surely , there was a noble munificence in this gift from a Monarch to his people . And let it be remembered , that during the Earl of Bute's adminis- tration , the ...
... lands in the ceded islands , which were estimated at 200,000l . more . Surely , there was a noble munificence in this gift from a Monarch to his people . And let it be remembered , that during the Earl of Bute's adminis- tration , the ...
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... lands , having fallen to the Crown by for- feiture , James the Fourth , King of Scotland , granted it to Thomas Boswell , a branch of an ancient family in the county of Fife , stiling him in the charter , " dilecto familiari nostro ...
... lands , having fallen to the Crown by for- feiture , James the Fourth , King of Scotland , granted it to Thomas Boswell , a branch of an ancient family in the county of Fife , stiling him in the charter , " dilecto familiari nostro ...
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... Land is , like any other possession , by natural right wholly in the power of its present owner ; and may be sold , given , or be- queathed , absolutely or conditionally , as judgement shall direct , or passion incite . " But natural ...
... Land is , like any other possession , by natural right wholly in the power of its present owner ; and may be sold , given , or be- queathed , absolutely or conditionally , as judgement shall direct , or passion incite . " But natural ...
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