The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 3G. Dearborn, 1835 |
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Page 76
... tell me . I am , Sir , your most , & c . , LETTER 204 . TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . " SAM . JOHNSON . " " Feb. 7 , 1775 . " MY DEAR BOSWELL , -I am surprised that , knowing as you do the disposi ion of your countrymen to tell lies in ...
... tell me . I am , Sir , your most , & c . , LETTER 204 . TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . " SAM . JOHNSON . " " Feb. 7 , 1775 . " MY DEAR BOSWELL , -I am surprised that , knowing as you do the disposi ion of your countrymen to tell lies in ...
Page 147
... tell the public anything of a place better known to many of my readers than to myself . We can talk of it when we ... tell you that I was just come home from a ramble , and hoped that I should have heard from you , I am afraid winter has ...
... tell the public anything of a place better known to many of my readers than to myself . We can talk of it when we ... tell you that I was just come home from a ramble , and hoped that I should have heard from you , I am afraid winter has ...
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... tell , but what they themselves have seen ? Of the past or the invisible they can tell nothing . The inhabitants of Otaheité and New Zealand are not in a state of pure nature ; for it is plain they broke off from some other people . Had ...
... tell , but what they themselves have seen ? Of the past or the invisible they can tell nothing . The inhabitants of Otaheité and New Zealand are not in a state of pure nature ; for it is plain they broke off from some other people . Had ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 11 |
Letters to Boswell c Religious Festivals and PilgrimagesDeath of GoldsmithGreek | 40 |
CHAPTER III | 69 |
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