Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... passed between me and Captain Cook , the day before , at dinner at Sir John Pringle's3 ; and he was much pleased with the conscien- tious accuracy of that celebrated circumnavigator , who set me right as to many of the exaggerated ...
... passed between me and Captain Cook , the day before , at dinner at Sir John Pringle's3 ; and he was much pleased with the conscien- tious accuracy of that celebrated circumnavigator , who set me right as to many of the exaggerated ...
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... passed his time , while in England , only in the best company ; so that all that he had acquired of our manners was genteel . As a proof of this , Sir , Lord Mulgrave and he dined one day at Streatham ; they sat with their backs . to ...
... passed his time , while in England , only in the best company ; so that all that he had acquired of our manners was genteel . As a proof of this , Sir , Lord Mulgrave and he dined one day at Streatham ; they sat with their backs . to ...
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... passed declaratory of their full right to one as well as the other , in matter of libel ; and the bill having been brought in by a popular gentleman , many of his party have in most extravagant terms declaimed on the wonderful acquisi ...
... passed declaratory of their full right to one as well as the other , in matter of libel ; and the bill having been brought in by a popular gentleman , many of his party have in most extravagant terms declaimed on the wonderful acquisi ...
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... passed the House of Lords in June 1792. Parl . Hist . xxix . 1537 . 1 Nobody , that is to say , but John- son . Post , p . 24 , note 2 . 2 Of this service Johnson re- corded : - ' In the morning I had at church some radiations of ...
... passed the House of Lords in June 1792. Parl . Hist . xxix . 1537 . 1 Nobody , that is to say , but John- son . Post , p . 24 , note 2 . 2 Of this service Johnson re- corded : - ' In the morning I had at church some radiations of ...
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... passed under mercenary . ' Walpole's sinecure offices thirty - nine years before this time brought him in ' near £ 2000 a year . ' In 1782 he wrote that his office of Usher of the Exchequer was worth £ 1800 a year . Letters , i . lxxix ...
... passed under mercenary . ' Walpole's sinecure offices thirty - nine years before this time brought him in ' near £ 2000 a year . ' In 1782 he wrote that his office of Usher of the Exchequer was worth £ 1800 a year . Letters , i . lxxix ...
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