The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 2Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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... gentleman teased him with an account of the infidelity of his servant , who , he said , would not believe the scriptures , because he could not read them in the original tongues , and be sure that they were not invented . " Why ...
... gentleman teased him with an account of the infidelity of his servant , who , he said , would not believe the scriptures , because he could not read them in the original tongues , and be sure that they were not invented . " Why ...
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... gentleman may be found in a note on the Life of Dryden , p . 186 , prefixed to the edition of that writer's prose works , in four volumes , 8vo . 1800 : where sir John Hawkins's representations are proved to have been most unjust . See ...
... gentleman may be found in a note on the Life of Dryden , p . 186 , prefixed to the edition of that writer's prose works , in four volumes , 8vo . 1800 : where sir John Hawkins's representations are proved to have been most unjust . See ...
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... gentlemen in the neighbourhood . His own ap- pearance , as to clothes , was genteelly neat and plain . He had always a post- chaise , and kept three horses . " Such , with the resources I have mentioned , was his way of living , which ...
... gentlemen in the neighbourhood . His own ap- pearance , as to clothes , was genteelly neat and plain . He had always a post- chaise , and kept three horses . " Such , with the resources I have mentioned , was his way of living , which ...
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... gentleman of good family , but small estate , who took arms for the house of Stuart in 1745 ; and during his concealment in London till the act of general pardon came out , obtained the ac- quaintance of Dr. Johnson , who justly ...
... gentleman of good family , but small estate , who took arms for the house of Stuart in 1745 ; and during his concealment in London till the act of general pardon came out , obtained the ac- quaintance of Dr. Johnson , who justly ...
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... gentlemen I beg leave to make my grateful acknowledgements , and particularly to sir Francis Lumm , who was ... gentleman , to make such use of in his Life of Dr. Johnson as he may think proper . " - BOSWELL . □ It is proper ...
... gentlemen I beg leave to make my grateful acknowledgements , and particularly to sir Francis Lumm , who was ... gentleman , to make such use of in his Life of Dr. Johnson as he may think proper . " - BOSWELL . □ It is proper ...
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