The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 6H.G. Bohn, 1844 |
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... wrote notes or minutes of what he saw . He promised to show me them , but I neglected to put him in mind of it ; and the greatest part of them has been lost , or perhaps destroyed in a precipitate burning of his papers a few days before ...
... wrote notes or minutes of what he saw . He promised to show me them , but I neglected to put him in mind of it ; and the greatest part of them has been lost , or perhaps destroyed in a precipitate burning of his papers a few days before ...
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... wrote a treatise " De Locis Theo- logicis , " in twelve books . B. He was celebrated for the beauty of his Latinity : " Melchior Canus parlait Latin comme Ciceron . " - · Vigneul - Marvilliana , vol . i . p . 161. - . C. - ( 2 ) M. de ...
... wrote a treatise " De Locis Theo- logicis , " in twelve books . B. He was celebrated for the beauty of his Latinity : " Melchior Canus parlait Latin comme Ciceron . " - · Vigneul - Marvilliana , vol . i . p . 161. - . C. - ( 2 ) M. de ...
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... wrote to Levet -We went to see the looking - glasses wrought - They come from Normandy in cast plates , perhaps the third of an inch thick At Paris they are ground upon a marble table , by rabbing one plate upon another with grit ...
... wrote to Levet -We went to see the looking - glasses wrought - They come from Normandy in cast plates , perhaps the third of an inch thick At Paris they are ground upon a marble table , by rabbing one plate upon another with grit ...
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... wrote any more after this time , I know not ; but probably not much , as he arrived in England about the 12th of November . These short notes of his tour , though they may seem minute taken singly , make together a considerable mass of ...
... wrote any more after this time , I know not ; but probably not much , as he arrived in England about the 12th of November . These short notes of his tour , though they may seem minute taken singly , make together a considerable mass of ...
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... wrote it , I imagine , pretty well , as appears from some of his letters in Mrs. Piozzi's collection , of which I shall transcribe one : LETTER 226. A MADAME LA COMTESSE DE " May 16. 1771 . " Oui , madame , le moment est arrivé , Mais ...
... wrote it , I imagine , pretty well , as appears from some of his letters in Mrs. Piozzi's collection , of which I shall transcribe one : LETTER 226. A MADAME LA COMTESSE DE " May 16. 1771 . " Oui , madame , le moment est arrivé , Mais ...
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