The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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... John Pringle had lent me , it being then little known as one of his works . He said , " Take no notice of it , " or " Don't talk of it . " He seemed to think it beneath him , though done at six- and - twenty . I said to him , " Your ...
... John Pringle had lent me , it being then little known as one of his works . He said , " Take no notice of it , " or " Don't talk of it . " He seemed to think it beneath him , though done at six- and - twenty . I said to him , " Your ...
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James Boswell. dinner at sir John Pringle's ; and he was much pleased with the conscientious accuracy of that celebrated circum- navigator , who set me right as to many of the exaggerated accounts given by Dr. Hawkesworth of his voyages ...
James Boswell. dinner at sir John Pringle's ; and he was much pleased with the conscientious accuracy of that celebrated circum- navigator , who set me right as to many of the exaggerated accounts given by Dr. Hawkesworth of his voyages ...
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... John Pringle , agreed very handsomely to have the leaf on which it was contained cancelled , and reprinted without it , at his own expense . - BoSWELL . g What Dr. Johnson has here said , is undoubtedly good sense ; yet I am afraid that ...
... John Pringle , agreed very handsomely to have the leaf on which it was contained cancelled , and reprinted without it , at his own expense . - BoSWELL . g What Dr. Johnson has here said , is undoubtedly good sense ; yet I am afraid that ...
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... JOHN- SON . " Then , sir , it would not be shot at . Nobody at- tempts to dispute that two and two make four : but with contests concerning moral truth , human passions are gene- paper . An arrest of judgement having been moved for ...
... JOHN- SON . " Then , sir , it would not be shot at . Nobody at- tempts to dispute that two and two make four : but with contests concerning moral truth , human passions are gene- paper . An arrest of judgement having been moved for ...
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... John Hawkins's Life of Johnson , p . 244 . -BOSWELL . Ballow is described by sir John Hawkins , in the passage referred to by Bos- well , as a " lawyer by profession , but of no practice : he having by the interest of some of the ...
... John Hawkins's Life of Johnson , p . 244 . -BOSWELL . Ballow is described by sir John Hawkins , in the passage referred to by Bos- well , as a " lawyer by profession , but of no practice : he having by the interest of some of the ...
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