The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works in Chronological Order ; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons ; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published ; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 2Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1851 |
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... soon die away of itself , would not suffer me to take any notice of it . His sincere regard for Francis Barber , his faithful negro servant , made him so desirous of his further improvement , that he now placed him at a school at Bishop ...
... soon die away of itself , would not suffer me to take any notice of it . His sincere regard for Francis Barber , his faithful negro servant , made him so desirous of his further improvement , that he now placed him at a school at Bishop ...
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... soon , and am to appear in an appeal from the Court of Session in the House of Lords . A schoolmaster in Scotland was , by a court of inferior jurisdiction , deprived of his office , for being somewhat severe in the chastisement of his ...
... soon , and am to appear in an appeal from the Court of Session in the House of Lords . A schoolmaster in Scotland was , by a court of inferior jurisdiction , deprived of his office , for being somewhat severe in the chastisement of his ...
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... soon as you can . Chambers is now at Oxford . ” I again wrote to him , informing him that the Court of Session rose on the twelfth of August , hoping to see him before that time , and expressing , perhaps in too extravagant terms , my ...
... soon as you can . Chambers is now at Oxford . ” I again wrote to him , informing him that the Court of Session rose on the twelfth of August , hoping to see him before that time , and expressing , perhaps in too extravagant terms , my ...
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Frontispiece Johnsons interview with George III | 6 |
Johnsons fit of laughter at the Temple Gate from an original drawing 170 | 7 |
17661767 | 9 |
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