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... prevailed on Johnson to omit them . The epithet little , which perhaps the author thought might diminish his dignity , was also changed to anxious . - ED . f See The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 40 [ 1768 . THE LIFE OF.
... prevailed on Johnson to omit them . The epithet little , which perhaps the author thought might diminish his dignity , was also changed to anxious . - ED . f See The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 40 [ 1768 . THE LIFE OF.
Page 41
... this expression : ". f See The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , 4th edit . p . 14 , where Johnson has supported the same argument . - J . BOSWELL . i My respectable friend , upon reading this passage , ÆTAT . 59. ] DR . JOHNSON . 41.
... this expression : ". f See The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , 4th edit . p . 14 , where Johnson has supported the same argument . - J . BOSWELL . i My respectable friend , upon reading this passage , ÆTAT . 59. ] DR . JOHNSON . 41.
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... Hebrides ; but said he would now coutent himself with seeing one or two of the most curious of them . He said , " Macaulay , who writes the account of St. Kilda , set out with a prejudice against prejudices , and wanted to be a smart ...
... Hebrides ; but said he would now coutent himself with seeing one or two of the most curious of them . He said , " Macaulay , who writes the account of St. Kilda , set out with a prejudice against prejudices , and wanted to be a smart ...
Page 112
... Hebrides ; where , in consequence of hearing a girl spinning in a chamber over that in which he was sitting , he repeated these lines , which , he said , were written by one Giffard , a clergyman ; but the poem in which they are ...
... Hebrides ; where , in consequence of hearing a girl spinning in a chamber over that in which he was sitting , he repeated these lines , which , he said , were written by one Giffard , a clergyman ; but the poem in which they are ...
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... Hebrides . TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . " DEAR SIR , -If you are now able to comprehend that I might neglect to write without diminution of affec- tion , you have taught me , likewise , how that neglect may be uneasily felt without ...
... Hebrides . TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . " DEAR SIR , -If you are now able to comprehend that I might neglect to write without diminution of affec- tion , you have taught me , likewise , how that neglect may be uneasily felt without ...
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