Life of Johnson ...Harper, 1891 |
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... passed between me and Captain Cook , the day before , at dinner at Sir John Pringle's ' ; and he was much pleased with the con- scientious accuracy of that celebrated circumnavigator , who set me right as to many of the exaggerated ...
... passed between me and Captain Cook , the day before , at dinner at Sir John Pringle's ' ; and he was much pleased with the con- scientious accuracy of that celebrated circumnavigator , who set me right as to many of the exaggerated ...
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... passed his time , while in England , only in the best company ; so that all that he had acquired of our manners was genteel . As a proof of this , Sir , Lord Mulgrave and he dined one day at Streatham ; they sat with their backs to the ...
... passed his time , while in England , only in the best company ; so that all that he had acquired of our manners was genteel . As a proof of this , Sir , Lord Mulgrave and he dined one day at Streatham ; they sat with their backs to the ...
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... passed declaratory of their full right to one as well as the other , in matter of libel ; and the bill having been brought in by a popular gentleman , many of his party have in most extravagant terms declaimed on the wonderful ...
... passed declaratory of their full right to one as well as the other , in matter of libel ; and the bill having been brought in by a popular gentleman , many of his party have in most extravagant terms declaimed on the wonderful ...
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... passed the House of Lords in June 1792. Parl . Hist . xxix . 1537 . 1 Nobody , that is to say , but Johnson . Post , p . 27 , note 4 . " Of this service Johnson recorded : - ' In the morning I had at church some radiations of comfort ...
... passed the House of Lords in June 1792. Parl . Hist . xxix . 1537 . 1 Nobody , that is to say , but Johnson . Post , p . 27 , note 4 . " Of this service Johnson recorded : - ' In the morning I had at church some radiations of comfort ...
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... passed under his observation , it would have afforded a very rich fund of instruction and entertainment . The suddenness with which his accounts of some of them started out in conversation , was not less pleasing than sur- prising . I ...
... passed under his observation , it would have afforded a very rich fund of instruction and entertainment . The suddenness with which his accounts of some of them started out in conversation , was not less pleasing than sur- prising . I ...
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