The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1856 |
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... present under very disadvantage- ous circumstances of fortune . I beg , there- fore , that you will favour me with a let- ter to - morrow , that I may know what you can afford to allow him , that he may either part with it to you , or ...
... present under very disadvantage- ous circumstances of fortune . I beg , there- fore , that you will favour me with a let- ter to - morrow , that I may know what you can afford to allow him , that he may either part with it to you , or ...
Page 233
... present spes , the reigning spes , as my German friends would say , the spes prima , the poet adds , Et juxta Ascanius , magnæ spes altera Romæ * . ' P " You think altera ungrammatical , and you tell me it should have been alteri . You ...
... present spes , the reigning spes , as my German friends would say , the spes prima , the poet adds , Et juxta Ascanius , magnæ spes altera Romæ * . ' P " You think altera ungrammatical , and you tell me it should have been alteri . You ...
Page 316
... present ministers to mingle virtue and vice . The woman ' s to parishes be well founded ; and supposing a whore ... present to my readers Dr. conversation by signs with some Esqui- Johnson's masterly thoughts on the subject , maux , who ...
... present ministers to mingle virtue and vice . The woman ' s to parishes be well founded ; and supposing a whore ... present to my readers Dr. conversation by signs with some Esqui- Johnson's masterly thoughts on the subject , maux , who ...
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