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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... WHOLE EDITED WITH NEW NOTES BY PERCY FITZGERALD , M.A. , F.S.A. IN THREE VOLUMES : VOL . II . SECOND EDITION WITH A PREFACE BY THE EDITOR , AND A BOSWELL BIBLIOGRAPHY BY H. R. TEDDER , F. S. A. LONDON : GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD . RUSKIN ...
... WHOLE EDITED WITH NEW NOTES BY PERCY FITZGERALD , M.A. , F.S.A. IN THREE VOLUMES : VOL . II . SECOND EDITION WITH A PREFACE BY THE EDITOR , AND A BOSWELL BIBLIOGRAPHY BY H. R. TEDDER , F. S. A. LONDON : GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD . RUSKIN ...
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... whole attention to his office ; and it is very proper that he should employ what time he has to himself , for his own advantage , in the most profitable manner . " " Then , Sir , ( said Davies , who enlivened the dispute by making it ...
... whole attention to his office ; and it is very proper that he should employ what time he has to himself , for his own advantage , in the most profitable manner . " " Then , Sir , ( said Davies , who enlivened the dispute by making it ...
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... whole of what was said by Johnson , or other eminent persons who lived with him . What I have preserved , however , has the value of the most perfect authenticity . He this day enlarged upon Pope's melancholy remark , " Man never is ...
... whole of what was said by Johnson , or other eminent persons who lived with him . What I have preserved , however , has the value of the most perfect authenticity . He this day enlarged upon Pope's melancholy remark , " Man never is ...
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... whole , very well observed even in London . He , however , owned that London was too large ; but added , " It is nonsense to say the head is too big for the body . It would be as much too big , though the body were ever so large : that ...
... whole , very well observed even in London . He , however , owned that London was too large ; but added , " It is nonsense to say the head is too big for the body . It would be as much too big , though the body were ever so large : that ...
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... whole conduct pro- ceeds upon it . How different in that respect is the state of the nation now from what it was in the time of Charles the First , during the Usurpation , and after the Restoration , in the time of Charles the Second ...
... whole conduct pro- ceeds upon it . How different in that respect is the state of the nation now from what it was in the time of Charles the First , during the Usurpation , and after the Restoration , in the time of Charles the Second ...
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