The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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... this year ; and I told him that I had received a letter from Dr. Robertson the historian , upon the subject , with which he was much pleased , and GOLDSMITH'S NATURAL HISTORY 21 now talked in such a manner 20 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.
... this year ; and I told him that I had received a letter from Dr. Robertson the historian , upon the subject , with which he was much pleased , and GOLDSMITH'S NATURAL HISTORY 21 now talked in such a manner 20 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.
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... received the agreeable intelligence that I was chosen . I hastened to the place of meeting , and was introduced to such a society as can seldom be found . Mr. Edmund Burke , whom I then saw for the first time , and whose splendid ...
... received the agreeable intelligence that I was chosen . I hastened to the place of meeting , and was introduced to such a society as can seldom be found . Mr. Edmund Burke , whom I then saw for the first time , and whose splendid ...
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... received some of his corrections . Johnson had read Eugenio on his first coming to town , for we see it mentioned in one of his letters to Mr. Cave , which has been inserted in this work . B. 2 The lines are in the Annus Mirabilis , and ...
... received some of his corrections . Johnson had read Eugenio on his first coming to town , for we see it mentioned in one of his letters to Mr. Cave , which has been inserted in this work . B. 2 The lines are in the Annus Mirabilis , and ...
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... received in England , that the extent of a manor and of a parish are regularly received for each other . The churches which the proprietors of lands had thus built and thus endowed , they justly thought themselves en- titled to provide ...
... received in England , that the extent of a manor and of a parish are regularly received for each other . The churches which the proprietors of lands had thus built and thus endowed , they justly thought themselves en- titled to provide ...
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... received notion of their migration . JOHNSON : " I think we have as good evidence for the migration of woodcocks as can be desired . We find they disappear at a certain time of the year , and appear again at a certain time of the year ...
... received notion of their migration . JOHNSON : " I think we have as good evidence for the migration of woodcocks as can be desired . We find they disappear at a certain time of the year , and appear again at a certain time of the year ...
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