The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including the Tour to the HebridesHenry Holt & Company, 1882 - 689 pàgines |
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... honor by me . I had brought enough with me to carry me through ; and all I should get at his school would be ascribed to my own labor , or to my former master . Yet he taught me a great deal . " He remained at Stourbridge little more ...
... honor by me . I had brought enough with me to carry me through ; and all I should get at his school would be ascribed to my own labor , or to my former master . Yet he taught me a great deal . " He remained at Stourbridge little more ...
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... honor of being librarian to Archi- bald Duke of Argyle , for many years , but was left without a shil- ling . Johnson wrote for him a Preface to " A System of Ancient Geography ; " and , by the favor of Lord Thurlow , got him ad- mitted ...
... honor of being librarian to Archi- bald Duke of Argyle , for many years , but was left without a shil- ling . Johnson wrote for him a Preface to " A System of Ancient Geography ; " and , by the favor of Lord Thurlow , got him ad- mitted ...
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... honor this book with a perusal , to point out any English writer whose language conveys his . meaning with equal force and perspicuity . It must , indeed , be allowed , that the structure of his sentences is expanded , and often has ...
... honor this book with a perusal , to point out any English writer whose language conveys his . meaning with equal force and perspicuity . It must , indeed , be allowed , that the structure of his sentences is expanded , and often has ...
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... honor , which , being very little accustomed to favors from the great , I know not well how to receive , or in what terms to acknowledge . " When , upon some slight encouragement , I first visited your lordship , I was overpowered ...
... honor , which , being very little accustomed to favors from the great , I know not well how to receive , or in what terms to acknowledge . " When , upon some slight encouragement , I first visited your lordship , I was overpowered ...
Pàgina 68
... honor of considerable importance , in order to grace the title - page of his Dictionary ; and his character in the literary world being by this time deservedly high , his friends thought that , if proper exertions were made , the ...
... honor of considerable importance , in order to grace the title - page of his Dictionary ; and his character in the literary world being by this time deservedly high , his friends thought that , if proper exertions were made , the ...
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