The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D: Including A Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2A. V. Blake, 1844 |
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... London , without any in- tention of leaving it - so that the editor is wholly at a loss to guess to whom or on what occasion the letter was written . Perhaps it was an exer cise.-ED. ] 2 [ This letter , notwithstanding some faults , is ...
... London , without any in- tention of leaving it - so that the editor is wholly at a loss to guess to whom or on what occasion the letter was written . Perhaps it was an exer cise.-ED. ] 2 [ This letter , notwithstanding some faults , is ...
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... London for a short time ; of this I think it necessary to inform you , that you may not be disappointed in any of your enterprises . I had not fully resolved to go into the country before this day . " Please to make my compliments to ...
... London for a short time ; of this I think it necessary to inform you , that you may not be disappointed in any of your enterprises . I had not fully resolved to go into the country before this day . " Please to make my compliments to ...
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... London ; and , therefore , workmanship ought , at least , not to be dearer . Our expenses are natu- rally less than those of booksellers ; and in most cases , communities are content with less profit than individuals . " It is , perhaps ...
... London ; and , therefore , workmanship ought , at least , not to be dearer . Our expenses are natu- rally less than those of booksellers ; and in most cases , communities are content with less profit than individuals . " It is , perhaps ...
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... London , quite as a valetudinarian , afraid to go into any house but his own . He takes a short airing in his post - chaise every day . He has an elderly woman , whom he calls cousin , who lives with him , and jogs his elbow , when his ...
... London , quite as a valetudinarian , afraid to go into any house but his own . He takes a short airing in his post - chaise every day . He has an elderly woman , whom he calls cousin , who lives with him , and jogs his elbow , when his ...
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... London . Her brother , a captain in the navy , had left her a fortune of ten thousand pounds ; about a third of which she had laid out in building a stately house , and making a handsome garden , in an elevated situation in Lichfield ...
... London . Her brother , a captain in the navy , had left her a fortune of ten thousand pounds ; about a third of which she had laid out in building a stately house , and making a handsome garden , in an elevated situation in Lichfield ...
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