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... perhaps , classify them as not dealing with ' sentiments purely religious ' ? I offer these as genuine , not rhetorical , questions . The matter is mysterious to me . Especially since Johnson himself was a magnificent devotional writer ...
... perhaps , classify them as not dealing with ' sentiments purely religious ' ? I offer these as genuine , not rhetorical , questions . The matter is mysterious to me . Especially since Johnson himself was a magnificent devotional writer ...
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... perhaps unconsciously , paid to this great man by his biographers : every house in which he resided is historically mentioned , as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence . The King , with ...
... perhaps unconsciously , paid to this great man by his biographers : every house in which he resided is historically mentioned , as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence . The King , with ...
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A Selection Samuel Johnson John Wain. any other English writer could supply . " Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with such variety of models . To him we owe the improvement , perhaps the completion of ...
A Selection Samuel Johnson John Wain. any other English writer could supply . " Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with such variety of models . To him we owe the improvement , perhaps the completion of ...
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