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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... person might be permitted to practise as an advocate there , without a doctor's degree in civil law . " I am , " said he , " a total stranger to these studies ; but whatever is a profession , and maintains numbers , must be within the ...
... person might be permitted to practise as an advocate there , without a doctor's degree in civil law . " I am , " said he , " a total stranger to these studies ; but whatever is a profession , and maintains numbers , must be within the ...
Page 176
... person who , they suspected , had thus made them objects of public notice ; nor were they quieted till authentic assur- ance was given them , that the Rambler was written by a person who had never heard of any one of them . Some of the ...
... person who , they suspected , had thus made them objects of public notice ; nor were they quieted till authentic assur- ance was given them , that the Rambler was written by a person who had never heard of any one of them . Some of the ...
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... person's child may be made the child of another person by adoption , as among the Romans , or by the ancient Jewish mode of a wife having children born to her upon her knees , by her handmaid . But these were children in a different ...
... person's child may be made the child of another person by adoption , as among the Romans , or by the ancient Jewish mode of a wife having children born to her upon her knees , by her handmaid . But these were children in a different ...
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