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At what time , or by what means , he had acquired a competent knowledge both of French and Italian , I do not know ; but he was so well skilled in them , as to be sufficiently qualified for a translator . That " A translation of this ...
At what time , or by what means , he had acquired a competent knowledge both of French and Italian , I do not know ; but he was so well skilled in them , as to be sufficiently qualified for a translator . That " A translation of this ...
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Though by no means niggardly , his attention to what was generally right was so minute , that having observed at one of the stages that I ostentatiously gave a shilling to the coachman , when the custom was for each passenger to give ...
Though by no means niggardly , his attention to what was generally right was so minute , that having observed at one of the stages that I ostentatiously gave a shilling to the coachman , when the custom was for each passenger to give ...
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Johnson , if he could be the means of his getting a seat in the House of Commons . With this view , he wrote a letter to one of the Secretaries of the Treasury , of which he gave me a copy in his own handwriting , which is as follows ...
Johnson , if he could be the means of his getting a seat in the House of Commons . With this view , he wrote a letter to one of the Secretaries of the Treasury , of which he gave me a copy in his own handwriting , which is as follows ...
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