The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volum 4Gabriel Wells, 1922 |
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... language , maintaining that they were merely arrangements of so many words , and laughed at the Universities of Oxford and Cam- bridge , for sending forth collections of them not only in Greek and Latin , but even in Syriac , Arabick ...
... language , maintaining that they were merely arrangements of so many words , and laughed at the Universities of Oxford and Cam- bridge , for sending forth collections of them not only in Greek and Latin , but even in Syriac , Arabick ...
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... language , I think , a new mode of history , which tells all that is wanted , and , I suppose , all that is known , without laboured splendour of language , or affected subtilty of conjecture . The exactness of his dates raises my ...
... language , I think , a new mode of history , which tells all that is wanted , and , I suppose , all that is known , without laboured splendour of language , or affected subtilty of conjecture . The exactness of his dates raises my ...
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... language , though that may not be essential to the question , I will attack him for his bad language . " ADAMS . " You would not jostle a chimney - sweeper . " JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir , if it were necessary to jostle him down . " " Dr ...
... language , though that may not be essential to the question , I will attack him for his bad language . " ADAMS . " You would not jostle a chimney - sweeper . " JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir , if it were necessary to jostle him down . " " Dr ...
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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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