Addresses and TransactionsW. Dawson, 1969 |
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... later years were darkened by losses through unsuccessful business undertakings . When he died he had reached the age of 75 and his SOR was 22. It was apparently at this later period and when his vigour was declining that the incident ...
... later years were darkened by losses through unsuccessful business undertakings . When he died he had reached the age of 75 and his SOR was 22. It was apparently at this later period and when his vigour was declining that the incident ...
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... later generations are enabled to see through Boswell . One hopes that that fatal word " cult " will never be used in connection with Johnson . There is no " Johnson cult " ; to love Johnson is a natural instinct of the English race ...
... later generations are enabled to see through Boswell . One hopes that that fatal word " cult " will never be used in connection with Johnson . There is no " Johnson cult " ; to love Johnson is a natural instinct of the English race ...
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... later was careful to style " very fair men , " in another sense than the Irish , whom , at another time , he described as " a very fair people , who never speak well of one another . " No doubt he read in 1744 a quantity of the Harleian ...
... later was careful to style " very fair men , " in another sense than the Irish , whom , at another time , he described as " a very fair people , who never speak well of one another . " No doubt he read in 1744 a quantity of the Harleian ...
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