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... record , I think this may also shed a new light on many of his utterances . To tell a young lady that she is a dunce may be the rudeness of a boor . The exact record of Johnson's remark to the lively Miss Monckton - and Boswell must ...
... record , I think this may also shed a new light on many of his utterances . To tell a young lady that she is a dunce may be the rudeness of a boor . The exact record of Johnson's remark to the lively Miss Monckton - and Boswell must ...
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... record of which it might well be proud , and a record which he felt could be equalled by few in the land . ( Hear , hear . ) Things had changed a lot no doubt since Johnson's time . They were told he said on one occasion , about games ...
... record of which it might well be proud , and a record which he felt could be equalled by few in the land . ( Hear , hear . ) Things had changed a lot no doubt since Johnson's time . They were told he said on one occasion , about games ...
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... record of his disbelief of one of Plot's statements in which Plot was , for once , in the right and he could have had more justification in doubting another of Plot's assertions , to wit , that the first begetter of the tradition of the ...
... record of his disbelief of one of Plot's statements in which Plot was , for once , in the right and he could have had more justification in doubting another of Plot's assertions , to wit , that the first begetter of the tradition of the ...
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