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... learned body . Johnson acknowledged the favour in a letter to Dr. Leland , one of their number ; but I have not been able to obtain a copy of it.1 He appears this year to have been seized with a temporary fit of ambition , for he had ...
... learned body . Johnson acknowledged the favour in a letter to Dr. Leland , one of their number ; but I have not been able to obtain a copy of it.1 He appears this year to have been seized with a temporary fit of ambition , for he had ...
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... learned , if any learned there were , could ; but knowing , by that learning , some written language , in that lan- guage they wrote , as letters had never been applied to their own . If there are manuscripts , let them be shown , with ...
... learned , if any learned there were , could ; but knowing , by that learning , some written language , in that lan- guage they wrote , as letters had never been applied to their own . If there are manuscripts , let them be shown , with ...
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... learned there ; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other . " " More is learned in public than in private schools from emulation ; there is the collision of mind with mind , or the radiation of many minds pointing to ...
... learned there ; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other . " " More is learned in public than in private schools from emulation ; there is the collision of mind with mind , or the radiation of many minds pointing to ...
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Death of Johnsons FatherIntercourse with Society in Lichfield Gilbert Walmesley | 30 |
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