The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1856 |
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... authour ( of whose abilities I shall say nothing , since I send you his per- formance ) , I believe I could not procure more advantageous terms from any person than from you , who have so much distin- guished yourself by your generous ...
... authour ( of whose abilities I shall say nothing , since I send you his per- formance ) , I believe I could not procure more advantageous terms from any person than from you , who have so much distin- guished yourself by your generous ...
Page 138
... authour . For the dedication to his present majesty , of Adams's book on the use of the globes , he was , as himself inform- ed me , gratified with a present of a very cu- rious meteorological instrument , of a new and ingenious ...
... authour . For the dedication to his present majesty , of Adams's book on the use of the globes , he was , as himself inform- ed me , gratified with a present of a very cu- rious meteorological instrument , of a new and ingenious ...
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... authour but that gentleman could furnish no aid on this occasion . At length the lines have been discovered by the authour's second son , Mr. James Boswell , in the London Magazine for July , 1732 , where they form part of a poem on ...
... authour but that gentleman could furnish no aid on this occasion . At length the lines have been discovered by the authour's second son , Mr. James Boswell , in the London Magazine for July , 1732 , where they form part of a poem on ...
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