Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 3Times Book Club, 1912 |
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... pleased to send to Mr. Banks , whose place of residence I do not know , this note , which I have sent open , that , if you please , you may read it . ' When you send it do not use your own seal . - I am , sir , your most humble servant ...
... pleased to send to Mr. Banks , whose place of residence I do not know , this note , which I have sent open , that , if you please , you may read it . ' When you send it do not use your own seal . - I am , sir , your most humble servant ...
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... pleased to buy for me an ounce of oil of vitriol ; not spirit of vitriol , but oil of vitriol . It will cost three half - pence . ' Peyton immediately went , and returned with it , and told him it cost but a penny . I then reminded him ...
... pleased to buy for me an ounce of oil of vitriol ; not spirit of vitriol , but oil of vitriol . It will cost three half - pence . ' Peyton immediately went , and returned with it , and told him it cost but a penny . I then reminded him ...
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... painful , but he soon made me forget it ; and a man is always pleased with himself when he finds his intellectual inclina- tions predominate . He observed , that to reason philosophically on the nature ET . 63 ] LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON 35.
... painful , but he soon made me forget it ; and a man is always pleased with himself when he finds his intellectual inclina- tions predominate . He observed , that to reason philosophically on the nature ET . 63 ] LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON 35.
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... pleased to call this a well - drawn paper , ' preferred the former very inferior petition which I had written ; thus con- firming the truth of an observation made to me by one of their number in a merry mood : ' My dear sir , give ...
... pleased to call this a well - drawn paper , ' preferred the former very inferior petition which I had written ; thus con- firming the truth of an observation made to me by one of their number in a merry mood : ' My dear sir , give ...
Stran 62
... pleased to honour me with very high praise of my Life of Dr. Johnson . To have the fame of my illustrious friend , and his faithful biographer , echoed from the New World is extremely flattering ; and my grateful acknowledgments shall ...
... pleased to honour me with very high praise of my Life of Dr. Johnson . To have the fame of my illustrious friend , and his faithful biographer , echoed from the New World is extremely flattering ; and my grateful acknowledgments shall ...
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