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Your very warm commendation of the specimen which I my being able to preserve his conversation in an authentick. gave in my Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , of a “ The perverseness of mankind , ” says Johnson vi DEDICATION .
Your very warm commendation of the specimen which I my being able to preserve his conversation in an authentick. gave in my Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , of a “ The perverseness of mankind , ” says Johnson vi DEDICATION .
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During this and the following year he wrote and gave to his much loved friend Dr. Bathurst the papers in the Adventurer , signed T ; acknowl . 1754. Life of Edw . Cave , in the Gentleman's Magazine ; acknowl . 1755.
During this and the following year he wrote and gave to his much loved friend Dr. Bathurst the papers in the Adventurer , signed T ; acknowl . 1754. Life of Edw . Cave , in the Gentleman's Magazine ; acknowl . 1755.
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His being appointed one of his executors gave him an opportunity of taking possession of such fragments ܪ of a diary and other papers as were left ;. b The greatest part of this book was written while sir John Hawkins was alive ; and I ...
His being appointed one of his executors gave him an opportunity of taking possession of such fragments ܪ of a diary and other papers as were left ;. b The greatest part of this book was written while sir John Hawkins was alive ; and I ...
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Those blessings , friend , a deity bestow'd , For I shall never think him less than god ; Oft on his altar shall my firstlings lie , Their blood the consecrated stones shall dye : He gave my flocks to graze the flowery meads , And me to ...
Those blessings , friend , a deity bestow'd , For I shall never think him less than god ; Oft on his altar shall my firstlings lie , Their blood the consecrated stones shall dye : He gave my flocks to graze the flowery meads , And me to ...
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... hue the fairest face o'ercast , And every beauty withers at the blast : f Some young ladies at Lichfield having proposed to act The Distressed Mother , Johnson wrote this , and gave it to Mr. Hector to convey it privately to them .
... hue the fairest face o'ercast , And every beauty withers at the blast : f Some young ladies at Lichfield having proposed to act The Distressed Mother , Johnson wrote this , and gave it to Mr. Hector to convey it privately to them .
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| Title | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Oxford English classics Volume 1 of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, James Boswell |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Publisher | Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 5 Jun 2018 |
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