Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, 3. kötetHarper, 1891 |
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... told by the travellers to the South Sea must be conjecture , because they had not enough of the language of those countries to under- stand so much as they have related . Objects falling under the observation of the senses might be ...
... told by the travellers to the South Sea must be conjecture , because they had not enough of the language of those countries to under- stand so much as they have related . Objects falling under the observation of the senses might be ...
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... told by a clergyman with whom he had been long acquainted , that , being ( sic ) to preach on a particular occasion , he applied to him for help . " I will write a sermon for thee , " said Johnson , “ but thou must pay me for it ...
... told by a clergyman with whom he had been long acquainted , that , being ( sic ) to preach on a particular occasion , he applied to him for help . " I will write a sermon for thee , " said Johnson , “ but thou must pay me for it ...
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... told me , ' I learnt what I know of law , chiefly from Mr. Ballow ' , a very able man . I learnt some , too , from Chambers ; but was not so teachable then . One is not willing to be taught by a young man . ' When I expressed a wish to ...
... told me , ' I learnt what I know of law , chiefly from Mr. Ballow ' , a very able man . I learnt some , too , from Chambers ; but was not so teachable then . One is not willing to be taught by a young man . ' When I expressed a wish to ...
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... told us , that one of them was still in his possession . This very piece was , after his death , pub- lished by some person who had been about him , and , for the sake of a little hasty profit , was fallaciously advertised , so as to ...
... told us , that one of them was still in his possession . This very piece was , after his death , pub- lished by some person who had been about him , and , for the sake of a little hasty profit , was fallaciously advertised , so as to ...
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... told us , that the book entitled The Lives of the Poets , by Mr. Cibber , was entirely compiled by Mr. Shiels , a Scotch- man , one of his amanuenses . The bookseller ( said he , ) gave Theophilus Cibber , who was then in prison , ten ...
... told us , that the book entitled The Lives of the Poets , by Mr. Cibber , was entirely compiled by Mr. Shiels , a Scotch- man , one of his amanuenses . The bookseller ( said he , ) gave Theophilus Cibber , who was then in prison , ten ...
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