The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1889 |
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... History . 176 Assists Boswell in preparing for the defence of the schoolmaster of Campbelltown Religious exercises • Dictates to Boswell a long argument in a law case Letters to and from Boswell . Goldsmith apologises for beating a ...
... History . 176 Assists Boswell in preparing for the defence of the schoolmaster of Campbelltown Religious exercises • Dictates to Boswell a long argument in a law case Letters to and from Boswell . Goldsmith apologises for beating a ...
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... History of Ireland , was born at Dublin , in 1722 , and died in 1785.— Wright . 2 The same who has contributed some notes to this work , and the elder brother of my earliest literary friend Dr. John Kearney , sometime Provost of Dublin ...
... History of Ireland , was born at Dublin , in 1722 , and died in 1785.— Wright . 2 The same who has contributed some notes to this work , and the elder brother of my earliest literary friend Dr. John Kearney , sometime Provost of Dublin ...
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... history ? Do I know mathematics ? Do I know law ? " JOHNSON . Why , Sir , though you may know no science so well as to be able to teach it , and no profession so well as to be able to follow it , your general mass of knowledge of books ...
... history ? Do I know mathematics ? Do I know law ? " JOHNSON . Why , Sir , though you may know no science so well as to be able to teach it , and no profession so well as to be able to follow it , your general mass of knowledge of books ...
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... , and the Dictionary was published , in 1772 , by the Rev. Owen Manning , author of the History and Antiquities of Surrey . - Croker . " You will pay my respects to all my Lincolnshire 82 1766 . BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... , and the Dictionary was published , in 1772 , by the Rev. Owen Manning , author of the History and Antiquities of Surrey . - Croker . " You will pay my respects to all my Lincolnshire 82 1766 . BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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... History of Corsica , ' you have no materials which 1 This alludes to the first sentence of the Prooemium of my Thesis . " Jurisprudentię studio nullum uberius , nullum generosius : in legibus enim agitandis , populorum mores , variasque ...
... History of Corsica , ' you have no materials which 1 This alludes to the first sentence of the Prooemium of my Thesis . " Jurisprudentię studio nullum uberius , nullum generosius : in legibus enim agitandis , populorum mores , variasque ...
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