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Sir , I have no doubt that I can do it in three years . Adams . But the French Academy , which consists of forty members , took forty years to compile their Dictionary . Johnson . Sir , thus it is . This is the proportion .
Sir , I have no doubt that I can do it in three years . Adams . But the French Academy , which consists of forty members , took forty years to compile their Dictionary . Johnson . Sir , thus it is . This is the proportion .
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Perhaps I deserved this check ; for it was rather presumptuous in me , an entire stranger , to express any doubt of the justice of his animadversion upon his old acquaintance and pupil.1 I now felt myself much mortified , and began to ...
Perhaps I deserved this check ; for it was rather presumptuous in me , an entire stranger , to express any doubt of the justice of his animadversion upon his old acquaintance and pupil.1 I now felt myself much mortified , and began to ...
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I was glad to understand from him that it was still resolved that his tour to Italy with Mr. and Mrs. Thrale should take place , of which he had entertained some doubt , on account of the loss which they had suffered ; and his doubts ...
I was glad to understand from him that it was still resolved that his tour to Italy with Mr. and Mrs. Thrale should take place , of which he had entertained some doubt , on account of the loss which they had suffered ; and his doubts ...
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Part of a Review of Graingers Sugar Cane a Poem in the London | 16 |
Life of Samuel Johnson | 19 |
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