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If gratitude should be acknowledged for favours 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 ...
If gratitude should be acknowledged for favours 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 ...
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... have been received with so much approbation , that I have good grounds for supposing that the world will not be indifferent to more ample communications of a similar nature . G That the conversation of a celebrated man , if his.
... have been received with so much approbation , that I have good grounds for supposing that the world will not be indifferent to more ample communications of a similar nature . G That the conversation of a celebrated man , if his.
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Every Frenchman received fifteen sous , and every foreigner thirty , after being touched : to some of the supposed patients the king said , Are you sick too ? For other curious particulars on this interesting subject , see Barrington on ...
Every Frenchman received fifteen sous , and every foreigner thirty , after being touched : to some of the supposed patients the king said , Are you sick too ? For other curious particulars on this interesting subject , see Barrington on ...
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... in the other , I learned much from the master , but little in the school . ” The bishop also informs me , that “ Dr. Johnson's father , before he was received at Stourbridge , applied to have him admitted as a scholar and assistant ...
... in the other , I learned much from the master , but little in the school . ” The bishop also informs me , that “ Dr. Johnson's father , before he was received at Stourbridge , applied to have him admitted as a scholar and assistant ...
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... in fact , he never received any assistance whatever from that gentleman . He , however , went to Oxford , and was entered a commoner of Pembroke college , on the thirty - first of October , 1728 , being then in his nineteenth year .
... in fact , he never received any assistance whatever from that gentleman . He , however , went to Oxford , and was entered a commoner of Pembroke college , on the thirty - first of October , 1728 , being then in his nineteenth year .
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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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