Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.H. Washbourne, 1857 - 580 pages |
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... expressed in civil terms , but such as might shew him that I did not mind what he said or wrote , and that I had done with him . " This is that celebrated letter of which so much has been said , and about which curio- sity has been so ...
... expressed in civil terms , but such as might shew him that I did not mind what he said or wrote , and that I had done with him . " This is that celebrated letter of which so much has been said , and about which curio- sity has been so ...
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... expressed " Scot , if ever Scot there were , " to him an apprehension , that if he should visit Ireland he might treat the people of have expressed himself thus ? And let me that country more unfavourably than he add , that , citizen of ...
... expressed " Scot , if ever Scot there were , " to him an apprehension , that if he should visit Ireland he might treat the people of have expressed himself thus ? And let me that country more unfavourably than he add , that , citizen of ...
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... expressed , " troubled in mind . " Some of the ancient philosophers held , that all deviations from right reason were mad- ness ; and whoever wishes to see the opi- nions both of ancients and moderns upon this subject , collected and ...
... expressed , " troubled in mind . " Some of the ancient philosophers held , that all deviations from right reason were mad- ness ; and whoever wishes to see the opi- nions both of ancients and moderns upon this subject , collected and ...
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