The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 4Derby & Jackson, 1858 - Hebrides (Scotland) |
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... sure I am right , and there's an end on't . " I said to him that it was certainly true , as my friend Dempster had observed in his letter to me upon the subject , that a great part of what was in his " Journey to the Western Islands of ...
... sure I am right , and there's an end on't . " I said to him that it was certainly true , as my friend Dempster had observed in his letter to me upon the subject , that a great part of what was in his " Journey to the Western Islands of ...
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... sure , Sir , it is better to live EDWARDS . " I wish I had continued at col- I shall not die rich . " rich , than to die rich . " 1 Johnson said to me afterwards , " Sir , they respected me for my literature ; and yet it was not great ...
... sure , Sir , it is better to live EDWARDS . " I wish I had continued at col- I shall not die rich . " rich , than to die rich . " 1 Johnson said to me afterwards , " Sir , they respected me for my literature ; and yet it was not great ...
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... sure but that this was my own suggestion , though it is truly in the character of Edwards . 2 This must have been the Rev. James Phipps , who had been a scholar of Pembroke , and who , in 1773 , left his estates to the college to ...
... sure but that this was my own suggestion , though it is truly in the character of Edwards . 2 This must have been the Rev. James Phipps , who had been a scholar of Pembroke , and who , in 1773 , left his estates to the college to ...
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... sure , it should not be . But who is without it ? " BOSWELL . " Yourself , Sir . " JOHNSON . " Why , I play no tricks : I lay no traps . " Boswell . " No , Sir . You are six feet high , and you only do not stoop . " We talked of the ...
... sure , it should not be . But who is without it ? " BOSWELL . " Yourself , Sir . " JOHNSON . " Why , I play no tricks : I lay no traps . " Boswell . " No , Sir . You are six feet high , and you only do not stoop . " We talked of the ...
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... sure , till we had a positive revelation . " told him , that his " Rasselas " had often made me unhappy ; for it represented the misery of human life so well , and so convincingly to a thinking mind , that if at any time the impression ...
... sure , till we had a positive revelation . " told him , that his " Rasselas " had often made me unhappy ; for it represented the misery of human life so well , and so convincingly to a thinking mind , that if at any time the impression ...
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