Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North WalesHarper, 1904 - Hebrides (Scotland) |
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... hear you ; and hope that we shall not be so long sep- arated again . Come home , and expect such a welcome as is due to him whom a wise and noble curiosity has led , where perhaps no native of this country ever was before3 . ' The ...
... hear you ; and hope that we shall not be so long sep- arated again . Come home , and expect such a welcome as is due to him whom a wise and noble curiosity has led , where perhaps no native of this country ever was before3 . ' The ...
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... hear it ; we'll 1 See ante , May 24 , 1763 . * Johnson's best justification for the apparent indolence of the lat- ter part of his life may be found in his own words : ' Every man of genius has some arts of fixing the attention peculiar ...
... hear it ; we'll 1 See ante , May 24 , 1763 . * Johnson's best justification for the apparent indolence of the lat- ter part of his life may be found in his own words : ' Every man of genius has some arts of fixing the attention peculiar ...
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... hear an account of his Ĺ“conomy , will be , how he was able , with such an income , to do so much , especially when it is considered that he paid for every thing he had ; he had no land , except the two or three small fields which I have ...
... hear an account of his Ĺ“conomy , will be , how he was able , with such an income , to do so much , especially when it is considered that he paid for every thing he had ; he had no land , except the two or three small fields which I have ...
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... hear from him till he had received a copy of my inaugural Exercise , or Thesis in Civil Law , which I pub- lished at my admission as an Advocate , as is the custom in Scotland . He then wrote to me as follows : ' DEAR SIR , ' TO JAMES ...
... hear from him till he had received a copy of my inaugural Exercise , or Thesis in Civil Law , which I pub- lished at my admission as an Advocate , as is the custom in Scotland . He then wrote to me as follows : ' DEAR SIR , ' TO JAMES ...
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... hear that it could be , in an assembly con- verea for the propagation of Christian knowledge , a question wheth- er any nation uninstructed in religion should receive instruction , the first that observed the emission of the electrical ...
... hear that it could be , in an assembly con- verea for the propagation of Christian knowledge , a question wheth- er any nation uninstructed in religion should receive instruction , the first that observed the emission of the electrical ...
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