The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Tom 3J. Murray, 1831 |
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... Johnson said , I ought to write Tour to down a collection of the instances of his narrowness , Hebrid . as they almost exceeded belief . Col told us , that O'Kane , the famous Irish harper , was once at that gentleman's house . He could ...
... Johnson said , I ought to write Tour to down a collection of the instances of his narrowness , Hebrid . as they almost exceeded belief . Col told us , that O'Kane , the famous Irish harper , was once at that gentleman's house . He could ...
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... JOHNSON . " Nay , sir , you must teach him gratis . You must give him an op- portunity to practise your precepts . " 1 Let me now go back , and glean Johnsoniana . The Saturday before we sailed from Slate , I sat awhile in the afternoon ...
... JOHNSON . " Nay , sir , you must teach him gratis . You must give him an op- portunity to practise your precepts . " 1 Let me now go back , and glean Johnsoniana . The Saturday before we sailed from Slate , I sat awhile in the afternoon ...
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... Johnson's heart was cheered by the sight of a road marked with cart - wheels , as on the main land ; a thing which we had not seen for a long time . It gave us a pleasure similar to that which a traveller feels , when , whilst wandering ...
... Johnson's heart was cheered by the sight of a road marked with cart - wheels , as on the main land ; a thing which we had not seen for a long time . It gave us a pleasure similar to that which a traveller feels , when , whilst wandering ...
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... Johnson , is the only return which the uncertainty of human events has permitted us to make to this deserving young man . Sir Allan , who obligingly undertook to accompany us to Icolmkill , had a strong good boat , with four stout ...
... Johnson , is the only return which the uncertainty of human events has permitted us to make to this deserving young man . Sir Allan , who obligingly undertook to accompany us to Icolmkill , had a strong good boat , with four stout ...
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... JOHNSON . " Sir , if it were told as shortly , and with as little preparation for in- troducing the different events , as the History of the Jewish Kings , it would be equally liable to objections of improbability . " Mr. Macleod was ...
... JOHNSON . " Sir , if it were told as shortly , and with as little preparation for in- troducing the different events , as the History of the Jewish Kings , it would be equally liable to objections of improbability . " Mr. Macleod was ...
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