Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 34John Murray, 1860 - 874 pages |
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... doubt , if he could legally have done so , he would himself have incorporated in the LIFE - of which indeed he expressly tells us , he looks on the TOUR but as a portion . It is only wonderful , that since the copyright has expired ...
... doubt , if he could legally have done so , he would himself have incorporated in the LIFE - of which indeed he expressly tells us , he looks on the TOUR but as a portion . It is only wonderful , that since the copyright has expired ...
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... doubt ; for there is no instance of any man , whose history has been minutely related , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of in- tellectual vigour . " In all such investigations it is certainly un- wise to ...
... doubt ; for there is no instance of any man , whose history has been minutely related , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of in- tellectual vigour . " In all such investigations it is certainly un- wise to ...
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... doubt occasioned by the hypochondriacal illness men- tioned ( ant่ , p . 9. n . 1. and post . p . 14. ) . and it is probable that his name remained on the books in the hope that his health and his means might enable him to return ...
... doubt occasioned by the hypochondriacal illness men- tioned ( ant่ , p . 9. n . 1. and post . p . 14. ) . and it is probable that his name remained on the books in the hope that his health and his means might enable him to return ...
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... doubt , from a proper pride . But , considering his ascetic disposition at times , as acknowledged by himself in his Meditations , and the exaggeration with which some have treated the peculiarities of his cha- racter , I should not ...
... doubt , from a proper pride . But , considering his ascetic disposition at times , as acknowledged by himself in his Meditations , and the exaggeration with which some have treated the peculiarities of his cha- racter , I should not ...
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... doubt its accu- racy . It is full of chronological difficulties , and can be at best but the vague recollections of 50 years before , as the quota- tion from Hawkins ascertains it to have been given subse- quent to 1787. - CROKER . 2 ...
... doubt its accu- racy . It is full of chronological difficulties , and can be at best but the vague recollections of 50 years before , as the quota- tion from Hawkins ascertains it to have been given subse- quent to 1787. - CROKER . 2 ...
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