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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... obliged to insert out of its proper place ; so there can be but little doubt that the third edition would have differed by as large a degree from the second as the second did from , the first . At his death , when the revision was ...
... obliged to insert out of its proper place ; so there can be but little doubt that the third edition would have differed by as large a degree from the second as the second did from , the first . At his death , when the revision was ...
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... obliged friend , And faithful humble servant , JAMES BOSWELL . ' London , April 20 , 1791 . Boswell was very well satisfied with his dedication and introduction , and wrote [ c ] complacently to his friends that he thought them very ...
... obliged friend , And faithful humble servant , JAMES BOSWELL . ' London , April 20 , 1791 . Boswell was very well satisfied with his dedication and introduction , and wrote [ c ] complacently to his friends that he thought them very ...
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... oblige every Authour to attend to this , and never to presume to intro- duce them with " I think I have read ; " —or , - " If I remember right ; " — when the originals may be examined . -- I beg leave to express my warmest thanks to ...
... oblige every Authour to attend to this , and never to presume to intro- duce them with " I think I have read ; " —or , - " If I remember right ; " — when the originals may be examined . -- I beg leave to express my warmest thanks to ...
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... obliged to insert at the end of the second volume , and at the beginning of the first . He , in fact , became rather bewildered , owing to his eagerness to present , in any shape , all the fresh matter that he had received ; and was ...
... obliged to insert at the end of the second volume , and at the beginning of the first . He , in fact , became rather bewildered , owing to his eagerness to present , in any shape , all the fresh matter that he had received ; and was ...
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... obliging friend . In the strangely mixed scenes of human existence , our feelings are often at once pleasing and painful . Of this truth , the pro- gress of the present Work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me ...
... obliging friend . In the strangely mixed scenes of human existence , our feelings are often at once pleasing and painful . Of this truth , the pro- gress of the present Work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me ...
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