The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1856 |
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... English translation on the opposite page . The English title - page is this : " An Account of an Attempt to ascertain the Longitude at Sea , by an exact Variation of the Magnetical Needle , & c . By Zachariah Williams . London , printed ...
... English translation on the opposite page . The English title - page is this : " An Account of an Attempt to ascertain the Longitude at Sea , by an exact Variation of the Magnetical Needle , & c . By Zachariah Williams . London , printed ...
Page 175
... English language , a man whose talents and worth were depressed by misfortunes , had given me a representation of the figure and manner of DICTIONARY JOHNSON ! as he was then generally called 2 ; and during my first visit to London ...
... English language , a man whose talents and worth were depressed by misfortunes , had given me a representation of the figure and manner of DICTIONARY JOHNSON ! as he was then generally called 2 ; and during my first visit to London ...
Page 176
... English cadence , yet so suc- cessful were Mr. Wedderburne's instruct- ors , and his own unabating endeavours , that he got rid of the coarse part of his Scotch accent , retaining only as much of the " native wood- note wild , " as to ...
... English cadence , yet so suc- cessful were Mr. Wedderburne's instruct- ors , and his own unabating endeavours , that he got rid of the coarse part of his Scotch accent , retaining only as much of the " native wood- note wild , " as to ...
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