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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... Opinion on a point of Scotch Law CHAP . XX . 1773 - New Editions of " The Diction- ary " and " Shakspeare " published - Geo . Steevens .154 163 PAGE -Letter to Boswell , who re - visits London - Gold- smith's Comedy , " She Stoops to ...
... Opinion on a point of Scotch Law CHAP . XX . 1773 - New Editions of " The Diction- ary " and " Shakspeare " published - Geo . Steevens .154 163 PAGE -Letter to Boswell , who re - visits London - Gold- smith's Comedy , " She Stoops to ...
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... Opinion of Water - drinking -Rutty's " Spiritual Diary " -Autobiographers - Blair's Lectures - John- son's Style of Writing- " Biographia Britannica❞— Melancholy and Madness - London Society - Bos- well's Ancestor , Lord Douglas - The ...
... Opinion of Water - drinking -Rutty's " Spiritual Diary " -Autobiographers - Blair's Lectures - John- son's Style of Writing- " Biographia Britannica❞— Melancholy and Madness - London Society - Bos- well's Ancestor , Lord Douglas - The ...
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... opinion of a Profession - The Law - Sir Wm . Scott- Dr. Leland - Burke - Goldsmith and Lord Camden- Garrick - On ... Opinions on various Subjects - Theocritus - Callimachus - Maittaire - On • Employing the Poor - Lockman - Physical and ...
... opinion of a Profession - The Law - Sir Wm . Scott- Dr. Leland - Burke - Goldsmith and Lord Camden- Garrick - On ... Opinions on various Subjects - Theocritus - Callimachus - Maittaire - On • Employing the Poor - Lockman - Physical and ...
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... opinion which he has given , * that every man's life may be best written by himself ; had he employed in the preservation of his own history , that clearness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent ...
... opinion which he has given , * that every man's life may be best written by himself ; had he employed in the preservation of his own history , that clearness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent ...
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... opinion , when they had such undoubted proofs that it was totally falla- cious ; though it is by no means surprising that those who wish to depreciate him , should , since his death , have laid hold of this circumstance , and insisted ...
... opinion , when they had such undoubted proofs that it was totally falla- cious ; though it is by no means surprising that those who wish to depreciate him , should , since his death , have laid hold of this circumstance , and insisted ...
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