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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... and read the portions of it , as they were written and submitted to him by Boswell . The Tour at once achieved success : three large editions of it were printed and sold in less than a year . DEDICATION . MY DEAR SIR , IN ΤΟ EDWARD MALONE.
... and read the portions of it , as they were written and submitted to him by Boswell . The Tour at once achieved success : three large editions of it were printed and sold in less than a year . DEDICATION . MY DEAR SIR , IN ΤΟ EDWARD MALONE.
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... writing - Edinburgh sur- veyed - Character of Swift's works - Evil spirits and witchcraft - Lord Monboddo and the Ouran Outang . 17. Poetry and Dictionary - writing - Scepticism - Eternal necessity refuted - Lord Hailes criticism on The ...
... writing - Edinburgh sur- veyed - Character of Swift's works - Evil spirits and witchcraft - Lord Monboddo and the Ouran Outang . 17. Poetry and Dictionary - writing - Scepticism - Eternal necessity refuted - Lord Hailes criticism on The ...
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... written by a friend - Studied conclusions of letters - Whether al- lowable in dying men to maintain resentment to the last - Instructions for writing the lives of literary men -Fingal denied to be genuine , and pleasantly ridiculed 201 ...
... written by a friend - Studied conclusions of letters - Whether al- lowable in dying men to maintain resentment to the last - Instructions for writing the lives of literary men -Fingal denied to be genuine , and pleasantly ridiculed 201 ...
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... written by Sir Alexander Macdonald Alleged meeting of Johnson and Adam Smith at Glasgow ( note by Editor ) • 367 369 370 Diary of a journey into North Wales in the year 1774. 373 INDEX . 399 22 . 23 . Jewish history compared - Scotland ...
... written by Sir Alexander Macdonald Alleged meeting of Johnson and Adam Smith at Glasgow ( note by Editor ) • 367 369 370 Diary of a journey into North Wales in the year 1774. 373 INDEX . 399 22 . 23 . Jewish history compared - Scotland ...
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... written by Sir Alexander Macdonald Alleged meeting of Johnson and Adam Smith at Glasgow ( note by Editor ) 367 • 369 370 Diary of a journey into North Wales in the year 1774. 373 INDEX . 399 HE WAS OF AN ADMIRABLE PREGNANCY OF WIT , AND ...
... written by Sir Alexander Macdonald Alleged meeting of Johnson and Adam Smith at Glasgow ( note by Editor ) 367 • 369 370 Diary of a journey into North Wales in the year 1774. 373 INDEX . 399 HE WAS OF AN ADMIRABLE PREGNANCY OF WIT , AND ...
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