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... Lord Justice Bowen , Sir James Stephen , Sir Leslie Stephen , and Professor Owen . As Matthew Arnold once said to Birkbeck Hill , it was easy to see that every subject was entrusted to a writer who was master of it . For many years he ...
... Lord Justice Bowen , Sir James Stephen , Sir Leslie Stephen , and Professor Owen . As Matthew Arnold once said to Birkbeck Hill , it was easy to see that every subject was entrusted to a writer who was master of it . For many years he ...
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... Lord Macaulay and Mr. Carlyle , and described Oxford as it was known to Johnson . The next year he edited Boswell's Journal of a Tour to Corsica . Twice was he drawn away from the task which he had set before himself , a new edition of ...
... Lord Macaulay and Mr. Carlyle , and described Oxford as it was known to Johnson . The next year he edited Boswell's Journal of a Tour to Corsica . Twice was he drawn away from the task which he had set before himself , a new edition of ...
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... Lord Chesterfield's Worldly Wisdom , a volume similar to the selection of Johnson's Wit and Wisdom , three years before . Meanwhile he had not lost sight of his main work . For some time he had been engaged in editing Johnson's Letters ...
... Lord Chesterfield's Worldly Wisdom , a volume similar to the selection of Johnson's Wit and Wisdom , three years before . Meanwhile he had not lost sight of his main work . For some time he had been engaged in editing Johnson's Letters ...
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... Lord Chesterfield , which formed a volume in a series entitled Eighteenth Century Letters under the general editorship of Mr. Brimley Johnson . For some time , however , he had been engaged in preparing a series of unpublished letters ...
... Lord Chesterfield , which formed a volume in a series entitled Eighteenth Century Letters under the general editorship of Mr. Brimley Johnson . For some time , however , he had been engaged in preparing a series of unpublished letters ...
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... Lord Chesterfield's Worldly Wisdom . Selections from his Letters and Characters , arranged and edited by George Birkbeck Hill . Oxford , at the Clarendon Press , 1891 . Letters of Samuel Johnson , LL.D. , collected and edited by George ...
... Lord Chesterfield's Worldly Wisdom . Selections from his Letters and Characters , arranged and edited by George Birkbeck Hill . Oxford , at the Clarendon Press , 1891 . Letters of Samuel Johnson , LL.D. , collected and edited by George ...
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