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... write or not , set your thoughts at rest . I now write to tell you that I shall not very soon write again , for I am to set out to - morrow on another journey . " Your friends are all well at Streatham , and in Leicester - fields.1 Make ...
... write or not , set your thoughts at rest . I now write to tell you that I shall not very soon write again , for I am to set out to - morrow on another journey . " Your friends are all well at Streatham , and in Leicester - fields.1 Make ...
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James Boswell Arnold Glover. you from writing . However , let somebody write , if you cannot , and tell me how you do , and a little of what has happened at Lichfield among our friends . I hope you are all well . " When I was in France ...
James Boswell Arnold Glover. you from writing . However , let somebody write , if you cannot , and tell me how you do , and a little of what has happened at Lichfield among our friends . I hope you are all well . " When I was in France ...
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... write a good book upon it , a man must have extensive views . It is not necessary to have practised , to write well upon a subject . " I mentioned law as a subject on which no man could write well without practice . JOHNSON . " Why ...
... write a good book upon it , a man must have extensive views . It is not necessary to have practised , to write well upon a subject . " I mentioned law as a subject on which no man could write well without practice . JOHNSON . " Why ...
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