The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 8Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, 1888 |
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Page 40
... occasion for these papers , I shall be obliged to you if you will return them . ' " The last of the three letters thus graciously put into my hands , and which has already appeared in public , belongs to this year ; but I shall ...
... occasion for these papers , I shall be obliged to you if you will return them . ' " The last of the three letters thus graciously put into my hands , and which has already appeared in public , belongs to this year ; but I shall ...
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... occasions for speculation . What has occurred to me , I have put into the volume ( 1 ) , of which I beg your acceptance . " Men in your station seldom have presents totally disinterested : my book is received , let me now make my ...
... occasions for speculation . What has occurred to me , I have put into the volume ( 1 ) , of which I beg your acceptance . " Men in your station seldom have presents totally disinterested : my book is received , let me now make my ...
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... occasion remind us of Isaac Walton's eulogy on Whitgift , in his Life of Hooker . " He lived to be present at the expiration of her ( Queen Elizabeth's ) last breath , and to behold the closing of those eyes that had long Looked upon ...
... occasion remind us of Isaac Walton's eulogy on Whitgift , in his Life of Hooker . " He lived to be present at the expiration of her ( Queen Elizabeth's ) last breath , and to behold the closing of those eyes that had long Looked upon ...
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... occasions may have directed the conversation to those topics , when they would not spontaneously have suggested themselves to Johnson's mind ; but that he also had a love for speculations of that nature may be gathered from his writings ...
... occasions may have directed the conversation to those topics , when they would not spontaneously have suggested themselves to Johnson's mind ; but that he also had a love for speculations of that nature may be gathered from his writings ...
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... occasion for our understanding it farther than to know that it was one of the extraordinary manifestations of divine power which accompanied the most un- portant event that ever happened . CHAPTER III . 1781 Dinner at Mrs. Garrick's ...
... occasion for our understanding it farther than to know that it was one of the extraordinary manifestations of divine power which accompanied the most un- portant event that ever happened . CHAPTER III . 1781 Dinner at Mrs. Garrick's ...
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