The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides. To which are Added, Volum 4J. Murray, 1835 |
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... given rise , I have made no answer . Every work must stand or fall by its own merit . I cannot , however , omit this opportunity of returning thanks to a gentleman who published a Defence ' ( 1 ) of my Journal , ( 1 ) [ " A Defence of ...
... given rise , I have made no answer . Every work must stand or fall by its own merit . I cannot , however , omit this opportunity of returning thanks to a gentleman who published a Defence ' ( 1 ) of my Journal , ( 1 ) [ " A Defence of ...
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... given rise ; remarks , which have been industriously circulated in the public prints by shallow or envious cavillers , who have endeavoured to persuade the world that Dr. Johnson's character has been lessened by recording such various ...
... given rise ; remarks , which have been industriously circulated in the public prints by shallow or envious cavillers , who have endeavoured to persuade the world that Dr. Johnson's character has been lessened by recording such various ...
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... given me hopes that we should go together and visit the He- brides . Martin's account of those islands had impressed us with a notion , that we might there contemplate a system of life almost totally dif- ferent from what we had been ...
... given me hopes that we should go together and visit the He- brides . Martin's account of those islands had impressed us with a notion , that we might there contemplate a system of life almost totally dif- ferent from what we had been ...
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... given by Burnet in his " History of his own Times . " From him the blood of Bruce flows in my veins . Of such ancestry who would not be proud ? And as " Nihil est , nisi hoc sciat alter " is peculiarly true of genealogy , who would not ...
... given by Burnet in his " History of his own Times . " From him the blood of Bruce flows in my veins . Of such ancestry who would not be proud ? And as " Nihil est , nisi hoc sciat alter " is peculiarly true of genealogy , who would not ...
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... given him so hearty a drubbing . But I should think myself very un- worthy , if I did not at the same time acknowledge Mr. John Wesley's merit , as a veteran " Soldier of Jesus Christ , " who has , I do believe , turned many from ...
... given him so hearty a drubbing . But I should think myself very un- worthy , if I did not at the same time acknowledge Mr. John Wesley's merit , as a veteran " Soldier of Jesus Christ , " who has , I do believe , turned many from ...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour ..., Volum 4 James Boswell Visualització completa - 1839 |
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