Addresses and TransactionsW. Dawson, 1969 |
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... interest a great historic figure like Samuel Johnson . He trusted the Society would long flourish , and that the individual members might reap rich benefit to their moral and intellectual life by the interest they showed in the man and ...
... interest a great historic figure like Samuel Johnson . He trusted the Society would long flourish , and that the individual members might reap rich benefit to their moral and intellectual life by the interest they showed in the man and ...
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... interest in the life and works of the great doctor increases , and , with the possible exception of Shakespeare , no writer is more quoted . The Johnson Society , founded in 1910 , has undoubtedly been chiefly responsible for ...
... interest in the life and works of the great doctor increases , and , with the possible exception of Shakespeare , no writer is more quoted . The Johnson Society , founded in 1910 , has undoubtedly been chiefly responsible for ...
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... interest was taken in Lichfield in Dr. Johnson's memory . On Saturday evening 126 Johnsonians sat down and celebrated the supper as recorded in Boswell's life of the great man . Those gentlemen came from distant parts - some from other ...
... interest was taken in Lichfield in Dr. Johnson's memory . On Saturday evening 126 Johnsonians sat down and celebrated the supper as recorded in Boswell's life of the great man . Those gentlemen came from distant parts - some from other ...
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