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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Page xxix
... excellent Biographer . His contri- butions to my Collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a the revision had not been completed . He looked forward to having the whole out by the month of August ; but he was again interrupted by ...
... excellent Biographer . His contri- butions to my Collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a the revision had not been completed . He looked forward to having the whole out by the month of August ; but he was again interrupted by ...
Page xxxii
... excellent . His strong , clear , and animated enforcement of religion , mo- rality , loyalty , and subordination , while it delights and improves the wise and the good , will , I trust , prove an effectual antidote to that detestable ...
... excellent . His strong , clear , and animated enforcement of religion , mo- rality , loyalty , and subordination , while it delights and improves the wise and the good , will , I trust , prove an effectual antidote to that detestable ...
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... excellent plan of Mr. Mason , in his Memoirs of Gray . Wherever narrative is necessary to explain , connect , and supply , I furnish it to the best of my abilities ; but in the chronological series of Johnson's life , which I trace as ...
... excellent plan of Mr. Mason , in his Memoirs of Gray . Wherever narrative is necessary to explain , connect , and supply , I furnish it to the best of my abilities ; but in the chronological series of Johnson's life , which I trace as ...
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... excellent master , and that his ushers were most of them men of eminence ; that Holbrook , one of the most ingenious men , best scholars , and best preachers of his age , was usher during the greatest part of the time that Johnson was ...
... excellent master , and that his ushers were most of them men of eminence ; that Holbrook , one of the most ingenious men , best scholars , and best preachers of his age , was usher during the greatest part of the time that Johnson was ...
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... excellent , that Johnson used to come and get them at second- hand from Taylor , till his poverty being so extreme , that his shoes were worn out , and his feet appeared through them , he saw that this humiliating circumstance was ...
... excellent , that Johnson used to come and get them at second- hand from Taylor , till his poverty being so extreme , that his shoes were worn out , and his feet appeared through them , he saw that this humiliating circumstance was ...
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