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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... expressed . I therefore recommend the previous perusal of it to all those who intend to buy the Dictionary , and who , I suppose , are all those who can afford it . " ..... " It must be owned , that our language is , at present , in a ...
... expressed . I therefore recommend the previous perusal of it to all those who intend to buy the Dictionary , and who , I suppose , are all those who can afford it . " ..... " It must be owned , that our language is , at present , in a ...
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... expressed in an easy style , that I should injure it by any alteration . " When Johnson came to Oxford in 1754 , the long vacation was beginning , and most people were leaving the place . This was the first time of his being there ...
... expressed in an easy style , that I should injure it by any alteration . " When Johnson came to Oxford in 1754 , the long vacation was beginning , and most people were leaving the place . This was the first time of his being there ...
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... expressed , regardless of what others might think , we may wonder , and perhaps regret ; but it is shallow and unjust to charge him with expressing what he did not think . Finding him in a placid humour , and wishing to avail myself of ...
... expressed , regardless of what others might think , we may wonder , and perhaps regret ; but it is shallow and unjust to charge him with expressing what he did not think . Finding him in a placid humour , and wishing to avail myself of ...
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