The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Nearly Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 1 |
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... received , I have this opportunity , my dear Sir , most sincerely to thank you for the many happy hours which I owe to your kindness , -for the cordiality with which you have at all times been pleased to welcome me , for the number of ...
... received , I have this opportunity , my dear Sir , most sincerely to thank you for the many happy hours which I owe to your kindness , -for the cordiality with which you have at all times been pleased to welcome me , for the number of ...
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... received with so much approbation that I have good grounds for supposing that the world will not be indifferent to more ample commu- nications of a similar nature . That the conversation of a celebrated man , if his talents have been ...
... received with so much approbation that I have good grounds for supposing that the world will not be indifferent to more ample commu- nications of a similar nature . That the conversation of a celebrated man , if his talents have been ...
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... received at Stourbridge , applied to have him admitted as a scholar and assistant to the Rev. Samuel Lee , M.A. , head master of Newport school in Shropshire , ( a very diligent good teacher , at that time in high reputation , under ...
... received at Stourbridge , applied to have him admitted as a scholar and assistant to the Rev. Samuel Lee , M.A. , head master of Newport school in Shropshire , ( a very diligent good teacher , at that time in high reputation , under ...
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... received any assistance whatever from that gentleman . He , however , went to Oxford , and was entered a commoner of Pembroke College , on the 31st of October , 1728 , being then in his nineteenth year . The Reverend Dr. Adams , who ...
... received any assistance whatever from that gentleman . He , however , went to Oxford , and was entered a commoner of Pembroke College , on the 31st of October , 1728 , being then in his nineteenth year . The Reverend Dr. Adams , who ...
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... . Interea , ne paupertate vires animi languescant , nec in flagitia egestas abigat , cavendum . - I layed by eleven guineas on this day , when I received twenty pounds , being. LICHFIELD . - 1730 . MARKET - BOSWORTH SCHOOL .
... . Interea , ne paupertate vires animi languescant , nec in flagitia egestas abigat , cavendum . - I layed by eleven guineas on this day , when I received twenty pounds , being. LICHFIELD . - 1730 . MARKET - BOSWORTH SCHOOL .
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