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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... kind enough to encourage me to under- take the task of restoring the text of Mr. Boswell's great Bio- graphy and , in addition , have allowed me to inscribe the work , now completed , to you . That my humble labour will be found worthy ...
... kind enough to encourage me to under- take the task of restoring the text of Mr. Boswell's great Bio- graphy and , in addition , have allowed me to inscribe the work , now completed , to you . That my humble labour will be found worthy ...
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... kind , filled with names and local allusions , the stock of newly - discovered information , gathering as it goes , will become inexhaustible . If all that can be told about such subjects is to be told , or even abstracted , the tide of ...
... kind , filled with names and local allusions , the stock of newly - discovered information , gathering as it goes , will become inexhaustible . If all that can be told about such subjects is to be told , or even abstracted , the tide of ...
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... kind approbation . Dr. Adams , eminent as the Head of a College , as a writer , and as a most amiable man , had known years , and was his friend through life . What reason I had to hope for the countenance of that venerable Gentleman to ...
... kind approbation . Dr. Adams , eminent as the Head of a College , as a writer , and as a most amiable man , had known years , and was his friend through life . What reason I had to hope for the countenance of that venerable Gentleman to ...
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... kind of writing . Since my work was announced , several Lives and Memoirs of Dr. Johnson have been published , the most voluminous of which is one compiled for the Booksellers of London , by Sir John Hawkins , Knight , " a man , whom ...
... kind of writing . Since my work was announced , several Lives and Memoirs of Dr. Johnson have been published , the most voluminous of which is one compiled for the Booksellers of London , by Sir John Hawkins , Knight , " a man , whom ...
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... kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are transmitted by tradition . We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance , except by his most prominent and observable particularities , and the grosser features of his mind ; and it ...
... kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are transmitted by tradition . We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance , except by his most prominent and observable particularities , and the grosser features of his mind ; and it ...
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