The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including the Tour to the HebridesHenry Holt & Company, 1882 - 689 pàgines |
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... took a pleasure in being drawn upon the ice by a boy barefooted , who pulled him along by a garter fixed round him ; no very easy operation , as his size was remarkably large . His defective sight , indeed , pre- vented him from ...
... took a pleasure in being drawn upon the ice by a boy barefooted , who pulled him along by a garter fixed round him ; no very easy operation , as his size was remarkably large . His defective sight , indeed , pre- vented him from ...
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... took up ' Law's Seri- ous Call to a Holy Life , ' expecting to find it a dull book ( as such books generally are ) , and perhaps to laugh at it . But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking ...
... took up ' Law's Seri- ous Call to a Holy Life , ' expecting to find it a dull book ( as such books generally are ) , and perhaps to laugh at it . But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking ...
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... took that trouble with any other composition ; and we shall see that his most excellent works were struck off at a heat , with rapid exertion . Yet he appears , from his early notes or memorandums in my possession , to have at various ...
... took that trouble with any other composition ; and we shall see that his most excellent works were struck off at a heat , with rapid exertion . Yet he appears , from his early notes or memorandums in my possession , to have at various ...
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... took a pleasure of boasting of the many eminent men who had been educated at Pembroke . In this list are found the names of Mr. Hawkins , the Poetry Professor , Mr. Shenstone , Sir William Blackstone , and others , not forgetting the ...
... took a pleasure of boasting of the many eminent men who had been educated at Pembroke . In this list are found the names of Mr. Hawkins , the Poetry Professor , Mr. Shenstone , Sir William Blackstone , and others , not forgetting the ...
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... took it ; the peaceable and the quarrelsome . When I returned to Lichfield , after having been in London , my mother asked me , whether I was one of those who gave the wall , or those who took it . Now it is fixed that every man keeps ...
... took it ; the peaceable and the quarrelsome . When I returned to Lichfield , after having been in London , my mother asked me , whether I was one of those who gave the wall , or those who took it . Now it is fixed that every man keeps ...
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