The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: comprising a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons ...Routledge, 1867 - 526 pages |
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... Attention to Dress- His last Dinner at the " Literary Club " -Intended Journey to Italy - Public Criminals - Mr . Vilette- Dr. Knox - Mr . Pinkerton - Jamaica - Lord Ches- terfield - Lord Eliot - Lord Thurlow's Letter , in favour of ...
... Attention to Dress- His last Dinner at the " Literary Club " -Intended Journey to Italy - Public Criminals - Mr . Vilette- Dr. Knox - Mr . Pinkerton - Jamaica - Lord Ches- terfield - Lord Eliot - Lord Thurlow's Letter , in favour of ...
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... attention with which I have collected and arranged the materials of which these volumes are composed , will hardly be conceived by those who read them with care- less facility . The stretch of mind and prompt assiduity by which so many ...
... attention with which I have collected and arranged the materials of which these volumes are composed , will hardly be conceived by those who read them with care- less facility . The stretch of mind and prompt assiduity by which so many ...
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... attention to incidents which the credulous relate with eager satisfaction , and the more scrupulous or witty inquirer considers only as topics of ridicule : yet there is a traditional story of the infant Hercules of toryism , so ...
... attention to incidents which the credulous relate with eager satisfaction , and the more scrupulous or witty inquirer considers only as topics of ridicule : yet there is a traditional story of the infant Hercules of toryism , so ...
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... attention paid to him ; of which remarkable instances were long remembered there . - PERCY . sional compositions . Of these I have ootained a considerable collection , by the favour of Mr. Wentworth , son of one of his masters , and of ...
... attention paid to him ; of which remarkable instances were long remembered there . - PERCY . sional compositions . Of these I have ootained a considerable collection , by the favour of Mr. Wentworth , son of one of his masters , and of ...
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... attention , and must be so frequently irritated by unavoidable slow- ness and error in the advances of scholars , as to perform the duty , with little pleasure to the teacher , and no great advantage to the pupils . Good temper is a ...
... attention , and must be so frequently irritated by unavoidable slow- ness and error in the advances of scholars , as to perform the duty , with little pleasure to the teacher , and no great advantage to the pupils . Good temper is a ...
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