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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... true that you have ever told me at Paris . Mr. Thrale is very liberal , and keeps us two coaches , and a very fine table ; but I think our cookery very bad . Mrs. Thrale got into a convent of English nuns , and I talked with her through ...
... true that you have ever told me at Paris . Mr. Thrale is very liberal , and keeps us two coaches , and a very fine table ; but I think our cookery very bad . Mrs. Thrale got into a convent of English nuns , and I talked with her through ...
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... true ; their frippery finery , and their beggarly coarse linen . They had , I thought , no politeness ; their civilities never indicated more good - will than the talk of a parrot , indiscriminately using the same set of su- perlative ...
... true ; their frippery finery , and their beggarly coarse linen . They had , I thought , no politeness ; their civilities never indicated more good - will than the talk of a parrot , indiscriminately using the same set of su- perlative ...
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... true Highland cordiality , that I am sure you would have thought me to blame if I jesuit , born at Ragusa in 1711 , who first introdu- ced the Newtonian philosophy into Italy . He vis- ited London in 1760 , and was there elected into ...
... true Highland cordiality , that I am sure you would have thought me to blame if I jesuit , born at Ragusa in 1711 , who first introdu- ced the Newtonian philosophy into Italy . He vis- ited London in 1760 , and was there elected into ...
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... true . Allowance must be made for some degree of exaggerated praise . In la- pidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath . " 66 There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly , but then less is learned there ; so that what ...
... true . Allowance must be made for some degree of exaggerated praise . In la- pidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath . " 66 There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly , but then less is learned there ; so that what ...
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... true , you may join with your father . " Further consideration produces another conclusion : He who receives a fief unlim- ited by his ancestors gives his heirs some reason to complain if he does not transmit it unlimited to posterity ...
... true , you may join with your father . " Further consideration produces another conclusion : He who receives a fief unlim- ited by his ancestors gives his heirs some reason to complain if he does not transmit it unlimited to posterity ...
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