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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... lived , whose company has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedication , when I mention that there has been a long and uninterrupted friendship between us . If gratitude should be ...
... lived , whose company has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedication , when I mention that there has been a long and uninterrupted friendship between us . If gratitude should be ...
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... lived to peruse it , and to give the strongest testimony to its fidelity ; but before a second edition , which he contributed to improve , could be finished , the world has been deprived of that most valuable man ; a loss of [ i ]
... lived to peruse it , and to give the strongest testimony to its fidelity ; but before a second edition , which he contributed to improve , could be finished , the world has been deprived of that most valuable man ; a loss of [ i ]
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... lived together with com- panionable ease and familiarity ; nor had Sir John Hawkins that nice perception which was necessary to mark the finer and less obvious parts of Johnson's character . His being appointed one of his executors ...
... lived together with com- panionable ease and familiarity ; nor had Sir John Hawkins that nice perception which was necessary to mark the finer and less obvious parts of Johnson's character . His being appointed one of his executors ...
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... lived . And he will be seen as he really was ; for I profess to write , not his panegyrick , which must be all praise , but his life ; which , great and good as he was , must not be supposed to be entirely perfect . To be as he was , is ...
... lived . And he will be seen as he really was ; for I profess to write , not his panegyrick , which must be all praise , but his life ; which , great and good as he was , must not be supposed to be entirely perfect . To be as he was , is ...
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... lived above five hundred years ago , explains that passage in the first Psalm , His leaf also shall not wither , from Rabbins yet older than himself , thus : That even the idle talk , so he expresses it , of a good man ought to be ...
... lived above five hundred years ago , explains that passage in the first Psalm , His leaf also shall not wither , from Rabbins yet older than himself , thus : That even the idle talk , so he expresses it , of a good man ought to be ...
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