The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1856 |
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... father was little at home it had not much effect . They sel- dom conversed ; for my father could not bear to talk of his affairs ; and my mother , being unacquainted with books , cared not to talk of any thing else . Had my mother been ...
... father was little at home it had not much effect . They sel- dom conversed ; for my father could not bear to talk of his affairs ; and my mother , being unacquainted with books , cared not to talk of any thing else . Had my mother been ...
Page 403
... father , in which his father was to blame ; because it arose from the son's not allowing his wife to keep company with his father's mistress . The old lord showed his resentment in his will 4 , -leaving his library [ Dr. Johnson is not ...
... father , in which his father was to blame ; because it arose from the son's not allowing his wife to keep company with his father's mistress . The old lord showed his resentment in his will 4 , -leaving his library [ Dr. Johnson is not ...
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... father's address . Dr. Johnson chal- standing ; but it was not said in his hear lenged him , as he did us all at Talisker , to ing . point out any theological works of merit written by presbyterian ministers in Scot- land . My father ...
... father's address . Dr. Johnson chal- standing ; but it was not said in his hear lenged him , as he did us all at Talisker , to ing . point out any theological works of merit written by presbyterian ministers in Scot- land . My father ...
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