Boswell's Life of Johnson ...H. Frowde, 1904 |
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... LANGUAGE . acknowl . An Account of an Attempt to ascertain the Longitude at Sea , by an exact Theory of the Variations of the Magnetical Needle , with a Table of the Variations at the most remarkable Cities in Europe from the year 1660 ...
... LANGUAGE . acknowl . An Account of an Attempt to ascertain the Longitude at Sea , by an exact Theory of the Variations of the Magnetical Needle , with a Table of the Variations at the most remarkable Cities in Europe from the year 1660 ...
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... language in which he has embalmed so many eminent persons , the world would probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited . But although he at different times , in a desultory manner , committed to ...
... language in which he has embalmed so many eminent persons , the world would probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited . But although he at different times , in a desultory manner , committed to ...
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... language , would probably have produced something sublime upon the gunpowder plot . To apologise for his neglect , he gave in a short copy of verses , entitled Somnium , containing a common thought ; ' that the Muse had come to him in ...
... language , would probably have produced something sublime upon the gunpowder plot . To apologise for his neglect , he gave in a short copy of verses , entitled Somnium , containing a common thought ; ' that the Muse had come to him in ...
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... language that contained the information he most wished for ; but from the pain which guilt [ namely having omitted to read what he did not understand ] had given him , he now began to deduce the soul's immortality [ a sensation of pain ...
... language that contained the information he most wished for ; but from the pain which guilt [ namely having omitted to read what he did not understand ] had given him , he now began to deduce the soul's immortality [ a sensation of pain ...
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... language , both for sentiment and expression . The nation was then in that ferment against the court and the ministry , which some years after ended in the downfall of Sir Robert Walpole ; and as it has been said , that Tories are Whigs ...
... language , both for sentiment and expression . The nation was then in that ferment against the court and the ministry , which some years after ended in the downfall of Sir Robert Walpole ; and as it has been said , that Tories are Whigs ...
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BOSWELLS LIFE OF JOHNSON, Količina 3 James 1740-1795 Boswell,George Birkbeck Norman 1835-1903 Hill Predogled ni na voljo - 2016 |
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