The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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... received , I have this opportunity , my dear Sir , most sincerely to thank you for the many happy hours which I owe to your kindness , -- for the cordiality with which you have at all times been pleased to welcome me -- for the number ...
... received , I have this opportunity , my dear Sir , most sincerely to thank you for the many happy hours which I owe to your kindness , -- for the cordiality with which you have at all times been pleased to welcome me -- for the number ...
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... received with so much approbation , that I have good grounds for supposing that the world will not be indifferent to more ample communications of a similar nature . That the conversation of a celebrated man , if his talents 1 Rambler ...
... received with so much approbation , that I have good grounds for supposing that the world will not be indifferent to more ample communications of a similar nature . That the conversation of a celebrated man , if his talents 1 Rambler ...
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... received at Stourbridge , applied to have him admitted as a scholar and assistant to the Rev. Samuel Lea , M.A. head master of Newport school , in Shropshire " ( a very diligent good teacher , at that time in high reputa- tion , under ...
... received at Stourbridge , applied to have him admitted as a scholar and assistant to the Rev. Samuel Lea , M.A. head master of Newport school , in Shropshire " ( a very diligent good teacher , at that time in high reputa- tion , under ...
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... received any assistance whatever from that gentleman.1 He , however , went to Oxford , and was entered a com- moner of Pembroke College , on the 31st of October , 1728 , being then in his nineteenth year . The Reverend Dr. Adams , who ...
... received any assistance whatever from that gentleman.1 He , however , went to Oxford , and was entered a com- moner of Pembroke College , on the 31st of October , 1728 , being then in his nineteenth year . The Reverend Dr. Adams , who ...
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... received twenty pounds , being all that I have reason to hope for out of my father's effects , previous to the death of my mother ; an event which I pray God may be very remote . I now therefore see that I must make my own fortune ...
... received twenty pounds , being all that I have reason to hope for out of my father's effects , previous to the death of my mother ; an event which I pray God may be very remote . I now therefore see that I must make my own fortune ...
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