Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, Količina 5Bigelow, Brown & Company, 1786 |
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... believe that in no language has a translation been published of the Life of Johnson . Johnson was indeed , as Bos- well often calls him , ' a trueborn Englishman ' - so English that for- eigners could neither understand him nor relish ...
... believe that in no language has a translation been published of the Life of Johnson . Johnson was indeed , as Bos- well often calls him , ' a trueborn Englishman ' - so English that for- eigners could neither understand him nor relish ...
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... believe Mr. Samuel Johnson will visit Scotland this year : but I wish that every power of attraction may be employed to secure our having so valuable an acquisi- tion , and therefore I hope you will without delay write to me what I know ...
... believe Mr. Samuel Johnson will visit Scotland this year : but I wish that every power of attraction may be employed to secure our having so valuable an acquisi- tion , and therefore I hope you will without delay write to me what I know ...
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... believe , more generally known than those of almost any man ; yet it may not be superfluous here to attempt a sketch of him . Let my readers then remember that he was a sincere and zealous christian , of high church of England and ...
... believe , more generally known than those of almost any man ; yet it may not be superfluous here to attempt a sketch of him . Let my readers then remember that he was a sincere and zealous christian , of high church of England and ...
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... believe no liberal - minded Scotsman will deny . He was indeed , if I may be allowed the phrase , at bottom much of a John Bull ; much of a blunt true born Englishman " . There was a stratum of common clay under the rock of marble . He ...
... believe no liberal - minded Scotsman will deny . He was indeed , if I may be allowed the phrase , at bottom much of a John Bull ; much of a blunt true born Englishman " . There was a stratum of common clay under the rock of marble . He ...
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... believe you will like . ' There was no catching him . JOHNSON . ' Why , Sir , what is commonly thought , I should take to be true . Your veal may be good ; but that will only be an exception to the general opinion ; not a proof against ...
... believe you will like . ' There was no catching him . JOHNSON . ' Why , Sir , what is commonly thought , I should take to be true . Your veal may be good ; but that will only be an exception to the general opinion ; not a proof against ...
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Aberdeen ancient asked August August 15 August 21 battle of Culloden Beattie believe boat Boswell Boswell's breakfast Burke called castle chief church conversation dinner Duke Dunvegan Earl Edinburgh England English entertained Errol Erse father Flora Macdonald Fort Augustus Garrick gave gentleman heard Hebrides Highland honour Horace Horace Walpole Hume Inchkenneth Inverness island isle James JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson Journey King Kingsburgh Lady Laird land learning lived London looked Lord Monboddo lordship M'Aulay M'Kinnon M'Lean M'Leod M'Queen Macdonald Macleod Malcolm mentioned miles mind Monboddo never night observed opinion Piozzi Letters pleased poem prayer Prince Charles Professor publick Rasay Robertson Samuel Johnson says Scotland Sept servant shew Sir Alexander Talisker talked tell thing thought Thrale tion told walked Walter Scott wish writing wrote young