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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... " But will you not allow him a nobleness of resolution , in penetrating into distant regions ? " JOHNSON . " That , ' Of Saturday , April 1 , 1775 . VOL . II . ? The traveller Bruce . I Sir , is not to the present purpose : we THE LIFE ...
... " But will you not allow him a nobleness of resolution , in penetrating into distant regions ? " JOHNSON . " That , ' Of Saturday , April 1 , 1775 . VOL . II . ? The traveller Bruce . I Sir , is not to the present purpose : we THE LIFE ...
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... present purpose : we are talking of his sense . A fighting cock has a nobleness of resolution . " Next day , Sunday , April 2 , I dined with him at Mr. Hoole's . We talked of Pope . JOHNSON . " " He wrote his Dunciad ' for fame . That ...
... present purpose : we are talking of his sense . A fighting cock has a nobleness of resolution . " Next day , Sunday , April 2 , I dined with him at Mr. Hoole's . We talked of Pope . JOHNSON . " " He wrote his Dunciad ' for fame . That ...
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... present Majesty , except James the Second , who was a very good King , but unhappily believed that it was necessary for the salvation of his subjects that they should be Roman Catholicks . He had the merit of endeavouring to do rance ...
... present Majesty , except James the Second , who was a very good King , but unhappily believed that it was necessary for the salvation of his subjects that they should be Roman Catholicks . He had the merit of endeavouring to do rance ...
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... present was never a happy state to any human being ; but that , as every part of life , of which we are conscious , was at some point of time a period yet to come , in which felicity Soon Let me here be allowed to pay my tribute of most ...
... present was never a happy state to any human being ; but that , as every part of life , of which we are conscious , was at some point of time a period yet to come , in which felicity Soon Let me here be allowed to pay my tribute of most ...
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... present , he answered , " Never , but when he is drunk . " He urged General Oglethorpe to give the world his Life . He said , " I know no man whose Life would be more interesting . If I were furnished with materials , I should be very ...
... present , he answered , " Never , but when he is drunk . " He urged General Oglethorpe to give the world his Life . He said , " I know no man whose Life would be more interesting . If I were furnished with materials , I should be very ...
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