Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Količina 1Harper & brothers, 1904 |
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... asked if it was not wrong in Orrery to expose the defects of a man [ Swift ] with whom he lived in intimacy . Johnson , " Why no , Sir , after the man is dead ; for then it is done historically . " ' Boswell's Hebrides , Sept. 22 , 1773 ...
... asked if it was not wrong in Orrery to expose the defects of a man [ Swift ] with whom he lived in intimacy . Johnson , " Why no , Sir , after the man is dead ; for then it is done historically . " ' Boswell's Hebrides , Sept. 22 , 1773 ...
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... asked by my mother whom he would invite to the Riding ; and answered , " all the town now . " He feasted the citizens with uncommon magnificence , and was the last but one that maintained the splendour of the Riding , ' Annals , p . 10 ...
... asked by my mother whom he would invite to the Riding ; and answered , " all the town now . " He feasted the citizens with uncommon magnificence , and was the last but one that maintained the splendour of the Riding , ' Annals , p . 10 ...
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... asked his old school - fellow , Mr. Hector , surgeon of Birmingham , if she was not vain of her son . He said , ' she had too much good sense to be vain , but she knew her son's value . ' Her piety was not inferiour to her understand ...
... asked his old school - fellow , Mr. Hector , surgeon of Birmingham , if she was not vain of her son . He said , ' she had too much good sense to be vain , but she knew her son's value . ' Her piety was not inferiour to her understand ...
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... asked Mr. John- son how he could possibly think of bringing such an infant to church , and in the midst of so great a croud . He answered , be- cause it was impossible to keep him at home ; for , young as he was , he believed he had ...
... asked Mr. John- son how he could possibly think of bringing such an infant to church , and in the midst of so great a croud . He answered , be- cause it was impossible to keep him at home ; for , young as he was , he believed he had ...
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... asked for subscriptions to carry on his great undertaking , for in its researches it was to be very great . In 1744 the City of London resolved to sub- scribe £ 50 for seven years ( ib . xiv . 393 ) . In vol . i . of his history , which ...
... asked for subscriptions to carry on his great undertaking , for in its researches it was to be very great . In 1744 the City of London resolved to sub- scribe £ 50 for seven years ( ib . xiv . 393 ) . In vol . i . of his history , which ...
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