The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 - Hebrides (Scotland) |
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... lived . Addison does not seem to have gone deep in Italian literature : he shows nothing of it in his subsequent writings . He shows a great deal of French learning . There is , perhaps , more know- ledge circulated in the French ...
... lived . Addison does not seem to have gone deep in Italian literature : he shows nothing of it in his subsequent writings . He shows a great deal of French learning . There is , perhaps , more know- ledge circulated in the French ...
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... Quarrie was hospitable to an almost romantic degree . He lived to an extreme old age . - WALTER SCOTT . ] 2 [ See Macleod's Memoirs , ante , v . ii . p . 555.-ED. ] the ship he should next get should be called the 14 1773. - ETAT . 64 .
... Quarrie was hospitable to an almost romantic degree . He lived to an extreme old age . - WALTER SCOTT . ] 2 [ See Macleod's Memoirs , ante , v . ii . p . 555.-ED. ] the ship he should next get should be called the 14 1773. - ETAT . 64 .
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... lived in the neighbourhood , on re- ceiving a message from Sir Allan , sent us a liberal supply . We continued to coast along Mull , and passed by Nuns ' Island , which , it is said , belonged to the nuns of Icolmkill , and from which ...
... lived in the neighbourhood , on re- ceiving a message from Sir Allan , sent us a liberal supply . We continued to coast along Mull , and passed by Nuns ' Island , which , it is said , belonged to the nuns of Icolmkill , and from which ...
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... lived for some time in St. Kilda , under the tuition of the minister or catechist there , and had there first read Horace and Virgil . The scenes which they describe must have been a strong contrast to the dreary waste around him ...
... lived for some time in St. Kilda , under the tuition of the minister or catechist there , and had there first read Horace and Virgil . The scenes which they describe must have been a strong contrast to the dreary waste around him ...
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... lived some time in Surinam . When he returned , he became zealous for episcopacy and monarchy ; and at the revolution adhered not only to the nonjurors , but to those who refused to communicate with the church of England , or to be ...
... lived some time in Surinam . When he returned , he became zealous for episcopacy and monarchy ; and at the revolution adhered not only to the nonjurors , but to those who refused to communicate with the church of England , or to be ...
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