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Page 29
... put the following note : - " My very honourable friend General Sir George Howard , who served in the Duke of Cumberland's army , has assured me that the cruelties were not imputable to his Royal Highness . ' The first allusion is ...
... put the following note : - " My very honourable friend General Sir George Howard , who served in the Duke of Cumberland's army , has assured me that the cruelties were not imputable to his Royal Highness . ' The first allusion is ...
Page 31
... follow him . Beauclerk talks of " TO BENNET LANGTON , ESQ . " DEAR SIR , -I have an old amanuensis in great distress . I have given what I think I can give , and begged till I cannot tell where to beg again . I put into his hands this ...
... follow him . Beauclerk talks of " TO BENNET LANGTON , ESQ . " DEAR SIR , -I have an old amanuensis in great distress . I have given what I think I can give , and begged till I cannot tell where to beg again . I put into his hands this ...
Page 68
... put the following note : - " He said , when he was in Scotland , that he was Johnson of that ilk . " 1 The house was burnt down in 1819 ; a door - scraper that had been distorted out of shape by the fire long lay about the yard . Allen ...
... put the following note : - " He said , when he was in Scotland , that he was Johnson of that ilk . " 1 The house was burnt down in 1819 ; a door - scraper that had been distorted out of shape by the fire long lay about the yard . Allen ...
Page 80
... put the following note : - " It has been mentioned to me by an accurate English friend , that Dr. Johnson could never have used the phrase almost nothing , as not being English ; and therefore I have put another in its place . At the ...
... put the following note : - " It has been mentioned to me by an accurate English friend , that Dr. Johnson could never have used the phrase almost nothing , as not being English ; and therefore I have put another in its place . At the ...
Page 81
... put the following note : - " Yet surely it is a very useful work , and of wonderful research and labour for one man to have executed . " 1 Gibbon's Roman History . VOL . II . 6 people , and seeing as much of life , and THE LIFE OF DR ...
... put the following note : - " Yet surely it is a very useful work , and of wonderful research and labour for one man to have executed . " 1 Gibbon's Roman History . VOL . II . 6 people , and seeing as much of life , and THE LIFE OF DR ...
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