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... 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 . Let me see ; forty times ...
... 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 . Let me see ; forty times ...
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... doubt had an early attachment to the House of Stuart ; but his zeal had cooled as his reason strengthened . Indeed I heard him once say , that ' after the death of a violent Whig , with whom he used to contend with great eagerness , he ...
... doubt had an early attachment to the House of Stuart ; but his zeal had cooled as his reason strengthened . Indeed I heard him once say , that ' after the death of a violent Whig , with whom he used to contend with great eagerness , he ...
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... doubt , on account of the loss which they had suffered ; and his doubts afterwards proved to be well - founded . He observed , indeed very justly , that their loss was an additional reason for their going abroad ; and if it had not been ...
... doubt , on account of the loss which they had suffered ; and his doubts afterwards proved to be well - founded . He observed , indeed very justly , that their loss was an additional reason for their going abroad ; and if it had not been ...
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DEDICATION TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS | 1 |
LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON SEPT 18 1709 | 17 |
INDEX 657704 | 657 |
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