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... Adams . Mr. Warton , amidst his variety of genius and learning , was an excellent biographer . His contributions to my collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my " Tour to the Hebrides , " I trust I should now ...
... Adams . Mr. Warton , amidst his variety of genius and learning , was an excellent biographer . His contributions to my collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my " Tour to the Hebrides , " I trust I should now ...
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... Adams , now master of Pembroke College , told me , I was the best qualified for the university that he had ever known come there . " In estimating the progress of his mind during these two years , as well as in future periods of his ...
... Adams , now master of Pembroke College , told me , I was the best qualified for the university that he had ever known come there . " In estimating the progress of his mind during these two years , as well as in future periods of his ...
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... Adams , who afterwards presided over Pembroke College with universal esteem , told me he was pre- sent , and gave me some account of what passed on the night of Johnson's arrival at Oxford . On that evening , his father , who had ...
... Adams , who afterwards presided over Pembroke College with universal esteem , told me he was pre- sent , and gave me some account of what passed on the night of Johnson's arrival at Oxford . On that evening , his father , who had ...
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... Adams informed me that he attended his tutor's lectures , and also the lectures in the College Hall very regularly . When , says Mrs. Piozzi , he related to me this anecdote , he laughed very heartily at the recollection of his own ...
... Adams informed me that he attended his tutor's lectures , and also the lectures in the College Hall very regularly . When , says Mrs. Piozzi , he related to me this anecdote , he laughed very heartily at the recollection of his own ...
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... very extensive . Dr. Adam Smith , than whom few were better judges on this sub- ject , once observed to me , that " Johnson knew more books than any man alive . " He had a peculiar ÆT . 20 . 4I BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... very extensive . Dr. Adam Smith , than whom few were better judges on this sub- ject , once observed to me , that " Johnson knew more books than any man alive . " He had a peculiar ÆT . 20 . 4I BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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Page 204 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
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