The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides;Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1846 |
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... present representative of that very respectable family : " He was not a man of superior abilities , but he was a man strictly faithful to his word . If , for instance , he had promised you an acorn , and none had grown that year in his ...
... present representative of that very respectable family : " He was not a man of superior abilities , but he was a man strictly faithful to his word . If , for instance , he had promised you an acorn , and none had grown that year in his ...
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... present century by Jacob Tonson . - M. ( 2 ) I am told that Horace , Earl of Orford , has a collection of Bon - Mots by persons who never said but one . B. I see coarseness here , but no wit . - C. - - he must be more combustible than ...
... present century by Jacob Tonson . - M. ( 2 ) I am told that Horace , Earl of Orford , has a collection of Bon - Mots by persons who never said but one . B. I see coarseness here , but no wit . - C. - - he must be more combustible than ...
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... present when this question was agitated between Dr. Johnson and Mr. Burke ; and , to use Johnson's phrase , they " talked their best ; " Johnson for Homer , Burke for Virgil . It may well be supposed to have been one of the ablest and ...
... present when this question was agitated between Dr. Johnson and Mr. Burke ; and , to use Johnson's phrase , they " talked their best ; " Johnson for Homer , Burke for Virgil . It may well be supposed to have been one of the ablest and ...
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... present when he was arrested , never knew that he was arrested , and I believe he never was in difficulties after the time when he relieved me . I loved him much ; yet , in talking of his general character , I may have said , though I ...
... present when he was arrested , never knew that he was arrested , and I believe he never was in difficulties after the time when he relieved me . I loved him much ; yet , in talking of his general character , I may have said , though I ...
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... present master ; who pretends no claim to his obedience , but that he bought him from a merchant of slaves , whose right to sell him never was examined . It is said , that according to the constitu- tions of Jamaica he was legally ...
... present master ; who pretends no claim to his obedience , but that he bought him from a merchant of slaves , whose right to sell him never was examined . It is said , that according to the constitu- tions of Jamaica he was legally ...
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