The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Bickers and Son, 1874 - Authors, English |
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... afterwards lost the greatest part , by engaging unsuccessfully in a manufacture of parchment . He was a zealous high - churchman and royalist , and retained his attachment to the unfortunate house of Stuart , though he reconciled ...
... afterwards lost the greatest part , by engaging unsuccessfully in a manufacture of parchment . He was a zealous high - churchman and royalist , and retained his attachment to the unfortunate house of Stuart , though he reconciled ...
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... afterwards derived so much benefit.1 He told me , that he remembered distinctly having had the first notice of Heaven , " a place to which good people went , " and Hell " a place to which bad people went , " communicated to him by her ...
... afterwards derived so much benefit.1 He told me , that he remembered distinctly having had the first notice of Heaven , " a place to which good people went , " and Hell " a place to which bad people went , " communicated to him by her ...
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... afterwards bore such rich and plentiful fruits ; for , excepting his orthographick works , every thing which Dr. Johnson wrote was Poetry , whose essence consists not in numbers , or in jingle , but in the strength and glow of a fancy ...
... afterwards bore such rich and plentiful fruits ; for , excepting his orthographick works , every thing which Dr. Johnson wrote was Poetry , whose essence consists not in numbers , or in jingle , but in the strength and glow of a fancy ...
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... afterwards Bishop of Lincoln , whose character in the learned world is well known . In the same form with Johnson was Congreve , who afterwards became chaplain to Archbishop Boulter , and by that connection obtained good preferment in ...
... afterwards Bishop of Lincoln , whose character in the learned world is well known . In the same form with Johnson was Congreve , who afterwards became chaplain to Archbishop Boulter , and by that connection obtained good preferment in ...
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... afterwards the gratification to hear that the old gentleman , who lived to a very advanced age , mentioned it as one of the most memorable events of his life , that " he was very near having that great man for his scholar . " He ...
... afterwards the gratification to hear that the old gentleman , who lived to a very advanced age , mentioned it as one of the most memorable events of his life , that " he was very near having that great man for his scholar . " He ...
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