Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 34John Murray, 1860 - 874 pages |
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... called them ( as they are commonly called ) " Testimoniums . " As the clerk was writing down the word , one of the counsel said , " Should it not be rather testimonia ? " " Yes , " replied Lord Avonmore , " if you think it better ...
... called them ( as they are commonly called ) " Testimoniums . " As the clerk was writing down the word , one of the counsel said , " Should it not be rather testimonia ? " " Yes , " replied Lord Avonmore , " if you think it better ...
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... called " a fixed star ; " while he In 1745 he was promoted to the rank of Major - General , and had a command during the Scotch Rebellion , in the course of which he was , to say the best of it , unfortunate . Though acquitted by a ...
... called " a fixed star ; " while he In 1745 he was promoted to the rank of Major - General , and had a command during the Scotch Rebellion , in the course of which he was , to say the best of it , unfortunate . Though acquitted by a ...
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... called for by the audience . The most striking and brilliant passages of it have been so often repeated , and are so well recollected by all the lovers of the drama and of poetry , that it would be superfluous to point them out . In the ...
... called for by the audience . The most striking and brilliant passages of it have been so often repeated , and are so well recollected by all the lovers of the drama and of poetry , that it would be superfluous to point them out . In the ...
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... called on him , was probably not to be im- puted to Lord Chesterfield ; for his lordship had declared to Dodsley , that " he would have turned off the best servant he ever had , if he had known that he denied him to a man who would have ...
... called on him , was probably not to be im- puted to Lord Chesterfield ; for his lordship had declared to Dodsley , that " he would have turned off the best servant he ever had , if he had known that he denied him to a man who would have ...
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... called upon to compare his own arduous performance , not with those of other indi- viduals , ( in which case his inflexible regard to truth would have been violated had he affected diffidence , ) but with speculative perfection ; as he ...
... called upon to compare his own arduous performance , not with those of other indi- viduals , ( in which case his inflexible regard to truth would have been violated had he affected diffidence , ) but with speculative perfection ; as he ...
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