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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... written by Dr. Johnson con- cerning his mother in her last illness , furnish another proof of his great piety and tenderness of heart . Some new Notes also have been added , which , with the letters now introduced , are in- cluded ...
... written by Dr. Johnson con- cerning his mother in her last illness , furnish another proof of his great piety and tenderness of heart . Some new Notes also have been added , which , with the letters now introduced , are in- cluded ...
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... written his own Life , in con- formity with the 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 ...
... written his own Life , in con- formity with the 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 ...
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... written , that it might lay open to ever slight , which my illustrious friend thought it posterity the private and familiar character of worth his while to express , with any degree of that man , cujus ingenium et candorem ex ipsius ...
... written , that it might lay open to ever slight , which my illustrious friend thought it posterity the private and familiar character of worth his while to express , with any degree of that man , cujus ingenium et candorem ex ipsius ...
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... written . The debates in Parliament , which were brought home and digested by Guthrie , whose memory , though surpassed by others who have since followed him in the same department , was yet very quick and tenacious , were sent by Cave ...
... written . The debates in Parliament , which were brought home and digested by Guthrie , whose memory , though surpassed by others who have since followed him in the same department , was yet very quick and tenacious , were sent by Cave ...
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... written by Mr. Pope in the following year , this school is said to have been in Shropshire ; but as it appears from a letter from Earl Gower , that the trustees of it were " some worthy gentlemen in Johnson's neigh- bourhood , " I in my ...
... written by Mr. Pope in the following year , this school is said to have been in Shropshire ; but as it appears from a letter from Earl Gower , that the trustees of it were " some worthy gentlemen in Johnson's neigh- bourhood , " I in my ...
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