The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. M. Dent, 1934 |
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... doubt if he could have remembered every one of them , as they were so numerous , so various , and scattered in such a multiplicity of unconnected publications ; nay , several of them published under the names of other persons , to whom ...
... doubt if he could have remembered every one of them , as they were so numerous , so various , and scattered in such a multiplicity of unconnected publications ; nay , several of them published under the names of other persons , to whom ...
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... doubt , they received many valuable hints from his con- versation , most of his friends having been so assisted in the course of their works . " 9 That there should be a suspension of his literary labours during a part of the year 1752 ...
... doubt , they received many valuable hints from his con- versation , most of his friends having been so assisted in the course of their works . " 9 That there should be a suspension of his literary labours during a part of the year 1752 ...
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... doubt had an early attachment to the House of Stuart ; but his zeal had cooled as his reason strengthened . Indeed I heard him once say , " that after the death of a violent Whig , with whom he used to contend with great eagerness , he ...
... doubt had an early attachment to the House of Stuart ; but his zeal had cooled as his reason strengthened . Indeed I heard him once say , " that after the death of a violent Whig , with whom he used to contend with great eagerness , he ...
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