The Life of Samuel Johnson ...: Including A Journal of a Tour to the HebridesHarper & Brothers, 1863 |
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... true and how much is false ? Besides , sir , what dam- ages would a jury give me for having been represented as swearing ? " BOSWELL . " I think , sir , you should at least disavow such a publication , because the world and poster- ity ...
... true and how much is false ? Besides , sir , what dam- ages would a jury give me for having been represented as swearing ? " BOSWELL . " I think , sir , you should at least disavow such a publication , because the world and poster- ity ...
Page 193
... true . To be sure , the man had BOSWELL . " Would you tell Mr. ? " a fever ; and this vision may have been the ( naming a gentleman who assuredly was beginning of it . But if the message to the not in the least danger of such a ...
... true . To be sure , the man had BOSWELL . " Would you tell Mr. ? " a fever ; and this vision may have been the ( naming a gentleman who assuredly was beginning of it . But if the message to the not in the least danger of such a ...
Page 386
... true Tory cordiality . When praying for the conversion of sin- | is not promoted . " I told this to Dr. Now ners , and of himself in particular , he says , ell ; and asserting my humbler , though no LORD , thou wilt not leave thy chief ...
... true Tory cordiality . When praying for the conversion of sin- | is not promoted . " I told this to Dr. Now ners , and of himself in particular , he says , ell ; and asserting my humbler , though no LORD , thou wilt not leave thy chief ...
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