The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.Bickers and Son, 1874 - Hebrides (Scotland) |
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... death , a contempt for the notion that the weather affects the human frame . I told him that our friend Goldsmith had said to me , that he had come too late into the world , for that Pope and other poets had taken up the places in the ...
... death , a contempt for the notion that the weather affects the human frame . I told him that our friend Goldsmith had said to me , that he had come too late into the world , for that Pope and other poets had taken up the places in the ...
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... death was lamented , I think , in forty languages . And I would have at every coronation , and every death of a King , every Gaudium , and every Luctus , University verses in as many languages as can be acquired . I would have the world ...
... death was lamented , I think , in forty languages . And I would have at every coronation , and every death of a King , every Gaudium , and every Luctus , University verses in as many languages as can be acquired . I would have the world ...
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... death . That this gentleman is a Doctor , his diploma makes evident ; a diploma not obtruded upon him , but obtained by solicitation , and for which fees were paid . With what countenance any man can refuse the title which he has either ...
... death . That this gentleman is a Doctor , his diploma makes evident ; a diploma not obtruded upon him , but obtained by solicitation , and for which fees were paid . With what countenance any man can refuse the title which he has either ...
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... death , which must ever be lamented : One small paper- book , however , entitled " FRANCE , II . " has been preserved , and is in my possession . It is a diurnal register of his life and observations , from the 10th of October to the ...
... death , which must ever be lamented : One small paper- book , however , entitled " FRANCE , II . " has been preserved , and is in my possession . It is a diurnal register of his life and observations , from the 10th of October to the ...
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... death of one woman.— The magistrate cannot seize a soldier but by the Colonel's per- mission . Good inn at Nismes . - Moors of Barbary fond of English- men . Gibraltar eminently healthy ; -it has beef from Barbary . -There is a large ...
... death of one woman.— The magistrate cannot seize a soldier but by the Colonel's per- mission . Good inn at Nismes . - Moors of Barbary fond of English- men . Gibraltar eminently healthy ; -it has beef from Barbary . -There is a large ...
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