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... endeavour to remove it ; and desire you to propose the question to which you wish for an I am , Sir , your humble servant , answer . " SAM . JOHNSON . " 66 ' TO MR . CAVE . " SIR , { No date . ] " I am pretty much of your opinion , that ...
... endeavour to remove it ; and desire you to propose the question to which you wish for an I am , Sir , your humble servant , answer . " SAM . JOHNSON . " 66 ' TO MR . CAVE . " SIR , { No date . ] " I am pretty much of your opinion , that ...
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... endeavour to make it cheerful . I wish your brother could meet us , that we might go and drink tea with Mr. Wise in a body . I hope he will be at Oxford , or at his nest of British and Saxon antiquities.3 I shall expect to see Spenser ...
... endeavour to make it cheerful . I wish your brother could meet us , that we might go and drink tea with Mr. Wise in a body . I hope he will be at Oxford , or at his nest of British and Saxon antiquities.3 I shall expect to see Spenser ...
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... endeavour to see things as they are , and then inquire whether we ought to complain . Whether to see life as it is , will give us much consolation , I know not ; but the conso- lation which is drawn from truth , if any there be , is ...
... endeavour to see things as they are , and then inquire whether we ought to complain . Whether to see life as it is , will give us much consolation , I know not ; but the conso- lation which is drawn from truth , if any there be , is ...
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17091731 | 1 |
Death of Johnsons FatherIntercourse with Society in Lichfield Gilbert Walmesley | 30 |
17371738 | 47 |
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