The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 2National ilustrated library, 1851 |
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... soon to attain civil greatness . I am grown greater too , for I have maintained the newspapers these many weeks ; and what is greater still , I have risen every morning since New- year's day , at about eight when I was up , I have ...
... soon to attain civil greatness . I am grown greater too , for I have maintained the newspapers these many weeks ; and what is greater still , I have risen every morning since New- year's day , at about eight when I was up , I have ...
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... soon die away of itself , would not suffer me to take any notice of it . His sincere regard for Francis Barber , his faithful negro servant , made him so desirous of his further improvement , that he now placed him at a school at Bishop ...
... soon die away of itself , would not suffer me to take any notice of it . His sincere regard for Francis Barber , his faithful negro servant , made him so desirous of his further improvement , that he now placed him at a school at Bishop ...
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... soon laid it aside . Sir , there is very little of intellectual , in the course . Besides , I see but at a small distance . So it was not worth my while to go to see birds fly , which I should not have seen fly ; and fishes swim , which ...
... soon laid it aside . Sir , there is very little of intellectual , in the course . Besides , I see but at a small distance . So it was not worth my while to go to see birds fly , which I should not have seen fly ; and fishes swim , which ...
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Johnson introduced to George III Visits LichfieldDeath of Catherine Cham | 30 |
1769 | 50 |
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