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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... favours received , I have this opportunity , my dear Sir , most sincerely to thank you for the many happy hours which I owe to your kindness - for the cordiality with which you have at all times been pleased to welcome me for the number ...
... favours received , I have this opportunity , my dear Sir , most sincerely to thank you for the many happy hours which I owe to your kindness - for the cordiality with which you have at all times been pleased to welcome me for the number ...
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... favour me with communications and advice in the conduct of my Work . But I cannot sufficiently acknowledge my obligations to my friend Mr. Malone , who was so good as to allow me to read to him almost the whole of my manuscript , and ...
... favour me with communications and advice in the conduct of my Work . But I cannot sufficiently acknowledge my obligations to my friend Mr. Malone , who was so good as to allow me to read to him almost the whole of my manuscript , and ...
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... in which he is now employed , which makes every thing that relates to him peculiarly interesting . Lord MACARTNEY favoured me with his own copy of my book , with a number of notes , of which I have availed myself . in [ 7 ] ADVERTISEMENT .
... in which he is now employed , which makes every thing that relates to him peculiarly interesting . Lord MACARTNEY favoured me with his own copy of my book , with a number of notes , of which I have availed myself . in [ 7 ] ADVERTISEMENT .
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... favoured with the most liberal communi- cations by his friends ; I flatter myself that few biographers have entered upon such a work as this , with more advantages , indepen- dent of literary abilities , in which I am not vain enough to ...
... favoured with the most liberal communi- cations by his friends ; I flatter myself that few biographers have entered upon such a work as this , with more advantages , indepen- dent of literary abilities , in which I am not vain enough to ...
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... favour me : - " These infant numbers contain the seeds of those propensities which through his life so strongly marked his character , of that poetick talent which afterwards bore such rich and plentiful fruits ; for , excepting his ...
... favour me : - " These infant numbers contain the seeds of those propensities which through his life so strongly marked his character , of that poetick talent which afterwards bore such rich and plentiful fruits ; for , excepting his ...
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