The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1John W. Lovell Company, 1899 - Authors, English |
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... conversation was watched and recorded from night to night and from hour to hour with zealous attention and unceasing ... conversations only that have been published ; all his most private and most trifling corres- pondence - all his most ...
... conversation was watched and recorded from night to night and from hour to hour with zealous attention and unceasing ... conversations only that have been published ; all his most private and most trifling corres- pondence - all his most ...
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... conversation of a celebrated man , if his talents have been exerted in conversation , will best display his character , ' is , I trust , too well established in the judgment of mankind , to be at all shaken by a sneering observation of ...
... conversation of a celebrated man , if his talents have been exerted in conversation , will best display his character , ' is , I trust , too well established in the judgment of mankind , to be at all shaken by a sneering observation of ...
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... conversation was so rich , so animated , and so forcible , and his religious and political notions so congenial with those in which Langton had been educated , that he conceived for him that venera- tion and attachment which he ever ...
... conversation was so rich , so animated , and so forcible , and his religious and political notions so congenial with those in which Langton had been educated , that he conceived for him that venera- tion and attachment which he ever ...
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