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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... Learned Pig - Johnson's Visit to Oxford - Dr . Adams - Correspondence - Johnson's increasing Indisposition - His Return to the Metro- polis - Various Works contemplated by him - List of the Authors of Universal History - Rev . John ...
... Learned Pig - Johnson's Visit to Oxford - Dr . Adams - Correspondence - Johnson's increasing Indisposition - His Return to the Metro- polis - Various Works contemplated by him - List of the Authors of Universal History - Rev . John ...
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... learned , and the ingenious ; all these qualities I can , in perfect confidence of not being accused of flattery , as- cribe to you . If a man may indulge an honest pride in having it known to the world that he has been thought worthy ...
... learned , and the ingenious ; all these qualities I can , in perfect confidence of not being accused of flattery , as- cribe to you . If a man may indulge an honest pride in having it known to the world that he has been thought worthy ...
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... learned world is well known . In the same form with Johnson was Congreve , who afterwards be- came Chaplain to Archbishop Boulter , and by that connection obtained good preferment in Ire- land . He was a younger son of the ancient ...
... learned world is well known . In the same form with Johnson was Congreve , who afterwards be- came Chaplain to Archbishop Boulter , and by that connection obtained good preferment in Ire- land . He was a younger son of the ancient ...
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... learned much in the school , but little from the master ; in the other , I learned much from the master , but little in the school . " The bishop also informs me , that Dr. Johnson's father , before he was received at Stourbridge ...
... learned much in the school , but little from the master ; in the other , I learned much from the master , but little in the school . " The bishop also informs me , that Dr. Johnson's father , before he was received at Stourbridge ...
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... learned , philosophical , and pious Dr. Cheyne has so well treated under the title of " The English Malady . ' Though he suffered severely from it he was not therefore degraded . The powers of his great mind might be troubled , and ...
... learned , philosophical , and pious Dr. Cheyne has so well treated under the title of " The English Malady . ' Though he suffered severely from it he was not therefore degraded . The powers of his great mind might be troubled , and ...
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