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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... gave so much as £ 10 . Baronets and knights gave a guinea or two , and the great body of the contributors gave less than Johnson . ( Harwood's Lichfield , p . 69. ) In 1694 , we find him burying in the Cathedral , and placing a marble ...
... gave so much as £ 10 . Baronets and knights gave a guinea or two , and the great body of the contributors gave less than Johnson . ( Harwood's Lichfield , p . 69. ) In 1694 , we find him burying in the Cathedral , and placing a marble ...
Page 331
... gave it away very liberally . His desire of imaginary consequence predominated over his attention to truth . When he began to rise into notice he said ne had a brother who was Dean of Durham ; a fiction so easily detected , that it is ...
... gave it away very liberally . His desire of imaginary consequence predominated over his attention to truth . When he began to rise into notice he said ne had a brother who was Dean of Durham ; a fiction so easily detected , that it is ...
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... gave a shilling to the coach man , when the custom was for each passenger to give only sixpence , he took me aside and scolded me , saying that what I had done would make the coachman dissatisfied with all the rest of the passengers ...
... gave a shilling to the coach man , when the custom was for each passenger to give only sixpence , he took me aside and scolded me , saying that what I had done would make the coachman dissatisfied with all the rest of the passengers ...
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