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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... lived , whose company has been universally courted , I am justi- fied in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedication , when I mention that there has been a long and uninterrupted friendship between us . If gratitude should be ...
... lived , whose company has been universally courted , I am justi- fied in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedication , when I mention that there has been a long and uninterrupted friendship between us . If gratitude should be ...
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... lived together with companionable ease and familiarity ; nor had Sir John Hawkins that nice perception which was necessary to mark the finer and less obvious parts of Johnson's character . His being appointed one of his executors , gave ...
... lived together with companionable ease and familiarity ; nor had Sir John Hawkins that nice perception which was necessary to mark the finer and less obvious parts of Johnson's character . His being appointed one of his executors , gave ...
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... lived in great intimacy with him . There is , in the British Museum , a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr. Birch , on the subject of biography which , though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of artfully raising the value of my ...
... lived in great intimacy with him . There is , in the British Museum , a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr. Birch , on the subject of biography which , though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of artfully raising the value of my ...
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... lived about five hundred years ago , " Rabbi David Kimchi , a noted Jewish com- explains that passage in the first Psalm , His leaf also shall not wither , ' from Rabbins yet older than himself , thus : -That even the idle talk , ' so ...
... lived about five hundred years ago , " Rabbi David Kimchi , a noted Jewish com- explains that passage in the first Psalm , His leaf also shall not wither , ' from Rabbins yet older than himself , thus : -That even the idle talk , ' so ...
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... lived to be the illustrious character whose various excellence I am to endeavour to record , and Nathanael , who died in his twenty - fifth year . * not omit it . A young woman of Leek , in Staf- fordshire , while he served his ...
... lived to be the illustrious character whose various excellence I am to endeavour to record , and Nathanael , who died in his twenty - fifth year . * not omit it . A young woman of Leek , in Staf- fordshire , while he served his ...
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