The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 2Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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... wrote with a generous indig- nation as follows : TO MR . WILLIAM DRUMMOND . " SIR , I did not expect to hear that it could be , in an assembly convened for the propagation of christian know- ledge , a question whether any nation ...
... wrote with a generous indig- nation as follows : TO MR . WILLIAM DRUMMOND . " SIR , I did not expect to hear that it could be , in an assembly convened for the propagation of christian know- ledge , a question whether any nation ...
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... wrote me word of their situ- ation some time ago , to which I returned them an answer which raised hopes of more than it is proper for me to give them . Their representation of their affairs I have disco- vered to be such as cannot be ...
... wrote me word of their situ- ation some time ago , to which I returned them an answer which raised hopes of more than it is proper for me to give them . Their representation of their affairs I have disco- vered to be such as cannot be ...
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... wrote him a letter of expostulation , which I have not been able to find : but the substance of it is ascertained by a letter to Johnson in answer to it , which Mr. Hervey printed . The occasion of this correspondence between Dr ...
... wrote him a letter of expostulation , which I have not been able to find : but the substance of it is ascertained by a letter to Johnson in answer to it , which Mr. Hervey printed . The occasion of this correspondence between Dr ...
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... wrote to Mrs. Thrale , which forms a separate part of his works ; and as a proof of the high estimation set on any thing which came from his pen , was sold by that lady for the sum of five hundred pounds . -BOSWELL . a In his letter to ...
... wrote to Mrs. Thrale , which forms a separate part of his works ; and as a proof of the high estimation set on any thing which came from his pen , was sold by that lady for the sum of five hundred pounds . -BOSWELL . a In his letter to ...
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... wrote verses , but who liter- ally had no other notion of a verse , but that it consisted of ten syllables . Lay your knife and your fork across your plate , was to him a verse : Lay your knife and your fork across your plāte . As he wrote ...
... wrote verses , but who liter- ally had no other notion of a verse , but that it consisted of ten syllables . Lay your knife and your fork across your plate , was to him a verse : Lay your knife and your fork across your plāte . As he wrote ...
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