The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2Bickers and Son, 1874 - Authors, English |
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... languages to be the same , which I do not believe , yet as there is no reason to suppose that the inhabitants of the Highlands and Hebrides ever wrote their native language , it is not to be credited that a long poem was preserved among ...
... languages to be the same , which I do not believe , yet as there is no reason to suppose that the inhabitants of the Highlands and Hebrides ever wrote their native language , it is not to be credited that a long poem was preserved among ...
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... language that there are the means of acquiring . Nobody imagines that an University is to have at once two hundred poets ; but it should be able to shew two hundred scholars . Peiresc's death was lamented , I think , in forty languages ...
... language that there are the means of acquiring . Nobody imagines that an University is to have at once two hundred poets ; but it should be able to shew two hundred scholars . Peiresc's death was lamented , I think , in forty languages ...
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... language , I think , a new mode of history , which tells all that is wanted , and , I suppose , all that is known , without laboured splendour of language , or affected subtilty of conjecture . The exactness of his dates raises my ...
... language , I think , a new mode of history , which tells all that is wanted , and , I suppose , all that is known , without laboured splendour of language , or affected subtilty of conjecture . The exactness of his dates raises my ...
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... language which he speaks imper- fectly . Indeed , we must have often observed how inferiour , how This lady was Madame du Bocage , as Mr. Croker discovered from Miss Reynolds's " Recollections . " 2 Baretti , always ungracious when not ...
... language which he speaks imper- fectly . Indeed , we must have often observed how inferiour , how This lady was Madame du Bocage , as Mr. Croker discovered from Miss Reynolds's " Recollections . " 2 Baretti , always ungracious when not ...
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... language of our law , called to the succession . My father had declared a predilection for heirs general , that is , males and females indiscriminately . He was willing , however , that all males descend- ing from his grandfather should ...
... language of our law , called to the succession . My father had declared a predilection for heirs general , that is , males and females indiscriminately . He was willing , however , that all males descend- ing from his grandfather should ...
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