The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1G. Allen & Unwin, 1924 - Authors, English |
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... afterwards Bishop of Lincoln , whose character in the learned world is well known . In the same form with Johnson was Congreve , who afterwards became chaplain to Archbishop Boulter , and by that connection obtained good preferment in ...
... afterwards Bishop of Lincoln , whose character in the learned world is well known . In the same form with Johnson was Congreve , who afterwards became chaplain to Archbishop Boulter , and by that connection obtained good preferment in ...
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... afterwards acquainted . Mr. Meynell's eldest daughter was afterwards married to Mr. Fitzherbert , father to Mr. Alleyne Fitz- herbert , lately minister to the court of Russia . Of her , Dr. Johnson said , in Dr. Lawrence's study , that ...
... afterwards acquainted . Mr. Meynell's eldest daughter was afterwards married to Mr. Fitzherbert , father to Mr. Alleyne Fitz- herbert , lately minister to the court of Russia . Of her , Dr. Johnson said , in Dr. Lawrence's study , that ...
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... afterwards . I have a mind to give it him directly . Will you be so good as to carry a fifty pound note from me to him ? ' This I positively refused to do , as he might , perhaps , have knocked me down for insulting him , and have ...
... afterwards . I have a mind to give it him directly . Will you be so good as to carry a fifty pound note from me to him ? ' This I positively refused to do , as he might , perhaps , have knocked me down for insulting him , and have ...
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