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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... writing of old in the Highlands or Hebrides , in the Erse language , produce the manuscripts . Where men write they ... written this post to the ladies at Stow - hill , and you may , the day after you have this , or at any other time ...
... writing of old in the Highlands or Hebrides , in the Erse language , produce the manuscripts . Where men write they ... written this post to the ladies at Stow - hill , and you may , the day after you have this , or at any other time ...
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... writing it ; but I shall not easily deny what Lord Hailes and you concur in desiring . " I have been remarkably healthy ... written before 1775 , were obligingly communicated to me by the Rev. Dr. Vyse , and are printed in the present ...
... writing it ; but I shall not easily deny what Lord Hailes and you concur in desiring . " I have been remarkably healthy ... written before 1775 , were obligingly communicated to me by the Rev. Dr. Vyse , and are printed in the present ...
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... written by Johnson , from the French pronunciation of fossane . It should be observed , that the person who showed this menagerie was mistaken in supposing the fossane and the Bra- silian weasel to be the same , the fossane being a ...
... written by Johnson , from the French pronunciation of fossane . It should be observed , that the person who showed this menagerie was mistaken in supposing the fossane and the Bra- silian weasel to be the same , the fossane being a ...
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... written twice ; I have returned both the copies . Part I had read before . " Be so kind as to return Lord Hailes my most respectful thanks for his first vo- lume : his accuracy strikes me with wonder ; his narrative is far superior to ...
... written twice ; I have returned both the copies . Part I had read before . " Be so kind as to return Lord Hailes my most respectful thanks for his first vo- lume : his accuracy strikes me with wonder ; his narrative is far superior to ...
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... written a preface to his ed to be excellent . Johnson censured him ' Political Tracts , ' by way of a discourse for taking down a church which might have stood for many years , and building a new one at a different place , for no other ...
... written a preface to his ed to be excellent . Johnson censured him ' Political Tracts , ' by way of a discourse for taking down a church which might have stood for many years , and building a new one at a different place , for no other ...
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