The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Količina 5G. Bell and sons, 1889 |
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... gave us some hopes that you might prevail with Mr. Johnson to make out that excursion to Scotland , with the expectation of which we have long flattered ourselves . If he could order matters so as to pass some time in Edinburgh , about ...
... gave us some hopes that you might prevail with Mr. Johnson to make out that excursion to Scotland , with the expectation of which we have long flattered ourselves . If he could order matters so as to pass some time in Edinburgh , about ...
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... gave him an extraordinary advantage in arguing ; for he TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . " DEAR SIR , " I came hither last night , and mise , to be in Edinburgh on Saturday . am , Sir , your most humble servant , " My compliments to your lady ...
... gave him an extraordinary advantage in arguing ; for he TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . " DEAR SIR , " I came hither last night , and mise , to be in Edinburgh on Saturday . am , Sir , your most humble servant , " My compliments to your lady ...
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... gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking : yet , though grave and awful in his deportment , when he thought it necessary or proper , he frequently indulged himself in pleasantry and sportive sallies . He was prone to supersti ...
... gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking : yet , though grave and awful in his deportment , when he thought it necessary or proper , he frequently indulged himself in pleasantry and sportive sallies . He was prone to supersti ...
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... gave way to such habits , which proves that they were not involuntary . " I still , however , think that these gestures were involuntary ; for surely , had not that been the case , he would have re- strained them in the public streets ...
... gave way to such habits , which proves that they were not involuntary . " I still , however , think that these gestures were involuntary ; for surely , had not that been the case , he would have re- strained them in the public streets ...
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... gave the advantage to him who is in the right . ” We sat till near two in the morning , having chatted a good while after my wife left us . She had insisted , that , to show all respect to the sage , she would give up her own bedchamber ...
... gave the advantage to him who is in the right . ” We sat till near two in the morning , having chatted a good while after my wife left us . She had insisted , that , to show all respect to the sage , she would give up her own bedchamber ...
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