Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.J.M.Dent, 1927 |
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... death of an old school - fellow , and one with whom he had lived a good deal in London , would have affected my fellow - traveller much : but he only said , " Ah ! poor Jamy . " Afterwards , however , when we were in the chaise , he ...
... death of an old school - fellow , and one with whom he had lived a good deal in London , would have affected my fellow - traveller much : but he only said , " Ah ! poor Jamy . " Afterwards , however , when we were in the chaise , he ...
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... death , he took to dissipation and gaming , and lost all he had . One evening he lost a thousand pounds to a gentleman whose name I am sorry I have forgotten . Next morning he sent the gentleman five hundred pounds , with an apology ...
... death , he took to dissipation and gaming , and lost all he had . One evening he lost a thousand pounds to a gentleman whose name I am sorry I have forgotten . Next morning he sent the gentleman five hundred pounds , with an apology ...
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... death and the grave , proclaimed immortality to mankind . I repeated to him an argument of a lady of my acquaintance , who maintained , that her husband's having been guilty of num- berless infidelities , released her from conjugal ...
... death and the grave , proclaimed immortality to mankind . I repeated to him an argument of a lady of my acquaintance , who maintained , that her husband's having been guilty of num- berless infidelities , released her from conjugal ...
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... death , published by some person who had been about him , and , for the sake of a little hasty profit , was falla- ciously advertised , so as to make it be believed to have been written by Johnson himself . I said , I disliked the ...
... death , published by some person who had been about him , and , for the sake of a little hasty profit , was falla- ciously advertised , so as to make it be believed to have been written by Johnson himself . I said , I disliked the ...
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... death by attrition ; and that , therefore , the way to preserve life is to retard pulsation . But we know that 1 [ Johnson's opinions concerning the Monthly and Critical Reviews would not be accurate now [ 1803 ] .- BLAKEWAY . ] 2 Sir ...
... death by attrition ; and that , therefore , the way to preserve life is to retard pulsation . But we know that 1 [ Johnson's opinions concerning the Monthly and Critical Reviews would not be accurate now [ 1803 ] .- BLAKEWAY . ] 2 Sir ...
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