The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Routledge - Authors, English |
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... spirit of history , which is contrary to minute exactness , and of the regularity of a journal , which is inconsistent with spirit . For this reason I neither admit numbers or dates , nor reject them . " I am of your opinion with regard ...
... spirit of history , which is contrary to minute exactness , and of the regularity of a journal , which is inconsistent with spirit . For this reason I neither admit numbers or dates , nor reject them . " I am of your opinion with regard ...
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... spirit , for the detection of some enormous crime . " About ten at night the gentlemen met in the chamber in which the girl , supposed to be disturbed by a spirit , had , with proper caution , been put to bed by several ladies . They ...
... spirit , for the detection of some enormous crime . " About ten at night the gentlemen met in the chamber in which the girl , supposed to be disturbed by a spirit , had , with proper caution , been put to bed by several ladies . They ...
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... spirit and great power in what Burton says , when he writes from his own mind . " 6 " " Next morning we visited Dr. Wetherell , Master of University College , with whom Dr. Johnson conferred on the most advantageous mode of disposing of ...
... spirit and great power in what Burton says , when he writes from his own mind . " 6 " " Next morning we visited Dr. Wetherell , Master of University College , with whom Dr. Johnson conferred on the most advantageous mode of disposing of ...
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Death of Johnsons FatherIntercourse with Society in Lichfield Gilbert Walmesley | 30 |
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