Boswell's Life of JohnsonHumphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1922 |
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... Church , was the tutor of highest reputation , Taylor was entered of that College . Mr. Bateman's lectures were so excellent , that Johnson used to come and get them at second - hand from Taylor , till his 1 See Nash's History of ...
... Church , was the tutor of highest reputation , Taylor was entered of that College . Mr. Bateman's lectures were so excellent , that Johnson used to come and get them at second - hand from Taylor , till his 1 See Nash's History of ...
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... Church men , and he came no more . He was too proud to accept of money , and somebody having set a pair of new shoes at his door , he threw them away with indignation . How must we feel when we read such an anecdote of Samuel Johnson ...
... Church men , and he came no more . He was too proud to accept of money , and somebody having set a pair of new shoes at his door , he threw them away with indignation . How must we feel when we read such an anecdote of Samuel Johnson ...
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... Church Meadow , and missed his lecture in logick . After dinner , he sent for me to his room . I expected a sharp rebuke for my idleness , and went with a beating heart . When we were seated , he told me he had sent for me to drink a ...
... Church Meadow , and missed his lecture in logick . After dinner , he sent for me to his room . I expected a sharp rebuke for my idleness , and went with a beating heart . When we were seated , he told me he had sent for me to drink a ...
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... church twice . 6. To read books of Divinity , either speculative or prac- tical . 7. To instruct my family . ' 8. To wear off by meditation any worldly soil contracted in the week . ' 1756 ÆTAT . 47 . ] - IN 1756 Johnson found that the ...
... church twice . 6. To read books of Divinity , either speculative or prac- tical . 7. To instruct my family . ' 8. To wear off by meditation any worldly soil contracted in the week . ' 1756 ÆTAT . 47 . ] - IN 1756 Johnson found that the ...
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... church of Southill , in Bed- fordshire , there is the following Epitaph upon his monument , which I have transcribed : " TO THE PERPETUAL DISGRACE OF PUBLIC JUSTICE , THE HONOURABLE JOHN BYNG , ESQ . ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE , FELL A MARTYR ...
... church of Southill , in Bed- fordshire , there is the following Epitaph upon his monument , which I have transcribed : " TO THE PERPETUAL DISGRACE OF PUBLIC JUSTICE , THE HONOURABLE JOHN BYNG , ESQ . ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE , FELL A MARTYR ...
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