The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 - Hebrides (Scotland) |
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... thing to seeing a town . The vessels were from different places ; Clyde , Campbell - town , Newcastle , & c . One was returning After having been to Lancaster from Hamburgh . shut up so long in Col , the sight of such an assem- blage of ...
... thing to seeing a town . The vessels were from different places ; Clyde , Campbell - town , Newcastle , & c . One was returning After having been to Lancaster from Hamburgh . shut up so long in Col , the sight of such an assem- blage of ...
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... thing , I am not to let him have it again when he grows wiser . I like to see how avarice defeats itself : how , when avoiding to part with money , the miser gives something more valuable . " Col said , the gentleman's relations were ...
... thing , I am not to let him have it again when he grows wiser . I like to see how avarice defeats itself : how , when avoiding to part with money , the miser gives something more valuable . " Col said , the gentleman's relations were ...
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... thing that is at Icolmkill is so well known . You are like some New England - men who came to the mouth of the Thames . ' Come , ' said they , let us go up and see Mr. Langton thinks this must have been the hasty expression of a splene ...
... thing that is at Icolmkill is so well known . You are like some New England - men who came to the mouth of the Thames . ' Come , ' said they , let us go up and see Mr. Langton thinks this must have been the hasty expression of a splene ...
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... thing . She talks sensibly , and is the first person whom I have found , that can translate Erse poetry literally . " We set out , mounted on little Mull horses . Mull corresponded exactly with the idea which I had always had of it ; a ...
... thing . She talks sensibly , and is the first person whom I have found , that can translate Erse poetry literally . " We set out , mounted on little Mull horses . Mull corresponded exactly with the idea which I had always had of it ; a ...
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... thing which we had not seen for a long time . It gave us a pleasure similar to that which a traveller feels , when ... things than I could enumerate in a page or two . Among other agreeable circumstances , it was not the least , to find ...
... thing which we had not seen for a long time . It gave us a pleasure similar to that which a traveller feels , when ... things than I could enumerate in a page or two . Among other agreeable circumstances , it was not the least , to find ...
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