The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1856 |
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... heard him declare , that if holding up his right hand would have se- cured victory at Culloden to Prince Charles's army , he was not sure he would have held up ; so little confidence had he in the right claimed by the house of Stuart ...
... heard him declare , that if holding up his right hand would have se- cured victory at Culloden to Prince Charles's army , he was not sure he would have held up ; so little confidence had he in the right claimed by the house of Stuart ...
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... heard him mention the subject ; but at a later period of his life , when Sir Josh- ua Reynolds told him that Mr. Edmund Burke had said , that if he had come early into parliament , he certainly would have been the greatest speaker that ...
... heard him mention the subject ; but at a later period of his life , when Sir Josh- ua Reynolds told him that Mr. Edmund Burke had said , that if he had come early into parliament , he certainly would have been the greatest speaker that ...
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... heard a great part of Fingal repeated in the original . " For the satisfaction of those on the north of the Tweed , who may think Dr. John- son's account of Caledonian credulity and inaccuracy too strong , it is but fair to add , that ...
... heard a great part of Fingal repeated in the original . " For the satisfaction of those on the north of the Tweed , who may think Dr. John- son's account of Caledonian credulity and inaccuracy too strong , it is but fair to add , that ...
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