The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 - Authors, English |
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... comparing f See The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , 4th edit . p . 14 , where Johnson has supported the same argument . - J . BoswELL . those two writers , he used this expression : " ÆTAT . 59. ] 41 DR . JOHNSON .
... comparing f See The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , 4th edit . p . 14 , where Johnson has supported the same argument . - J . BoswELL . those two writers , he used this expression : " ÆTAT . 59. ] 41 DR . JOHNSON .
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... Hebrides ; but said he would now coutent himself with seeing one or two of the most curious of them . He said , He said , " Macaulay , who writes the account of St. Kilda , set out with a prejudice against prejudices , and wanted to be ...
... Hebrides ; but said he would now coutent himself with seeing one or two of the most curious of them . He said , He said , " Macaulay , who writes the account of St. Kilda , set out with a prejudice against prejudices , and wanted to be ...
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... Hebrides ; where , in consequence of hearing a girl spinning in a chamber over that in which he was sitting , he repeated these lines , which , he said , were written by one Giffard , a clergyman ; but the poem in which they are ...
... Hebrides ; where , in consequence of hearing a girl spinning in a chamber over that in which he was sitting , he repeated these lines , which , he said , were written by one Giffard , a clergyman ; but the poem in which they are ...
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... Hebrides . TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . " DEAR SIR , —If you are now able to comprehend that I might neglect to write without diminution of affec- tion , you have taught me , likewise , how that neglect may be uneasily felt without ...
... Hebrides . TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . " DEAR SIR , —If you are now able to comprehend that I might neglect to write without diminution of affec- tion , you have taught me , likewise , how that neglect may be uneasily felt without ...
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... Hebrides . I told him , I thought of buying it . JOHN- SON . " Pray do , sir . We will go and pass a winter amid the blasts there . We shall have fine fish , and we will take some dried tongues with us , and some books . We will have a ...
... Hebrides . I told him , I thought of buying it . JOHN- SON . " Pray do , sir . We will go and pass a winter amid the blasts there . We shall have fine fish , and we will take some dried tongues with us , and some books . We will have a ...
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