Life of JohnsonOxford University Press, 1927 |
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... learning , was an excellent Biographer . His contributions to my Collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my Tour to the Hebrides , I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of his kind ...
... learning , was an excellent Biographer . His contributions to my Collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my Tour to the Hebrides , I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of his kind ...
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... learning , talents and accomplishments ; much of which praise I have under their hands to be reposited in my archives at Auchinleck . An honourable and reverend friend speaking of the favourable reception of my volumes , even in the ...
... learning , talents and accomplishments ; much of which praise I have under their hands to be reposited in my archives at Auchinleck . An honourable and reverend friend speaking of the favourable reception of my volumes , even in the ...
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... learning will ever contemplate it with veneration . One day , while he was sitting in it quite alone , Dr. Panting , then master of the College , whom he called a fine Jacobite fellow , ' overheard him uttering this soliloquy in his ...
... learning will ever contemplate it with veneration . One day , while he was sitting in it quite alone , Dr. Panting , then master of the College , whom he called a fine Jacobite fellow , ' overheard him uttering this soliloquy in his ...
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... learning he revered , made him really ashamed of himself , though I fear ( said he ) I was too proud to own it . " 66 ' I have heard from some of his cotemporaries that he was generally seen lounging at the College gate , with a circle ...
... learning he revered , made him really ashamed of himself , though I fear ( said he ) I was too proud to own it . " 66 ' I have heard from some of his cotemporaries that he was generally seen lounging at the College gate , with a circle ...
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... learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular , and then pious . 6 His studies had been so various , that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge . His acquaintance with books was great , and what he did not ...
... learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular , and then pious . 6 His studies had been so various , that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge . His acquaintance with books was great , and what he did not ...
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