The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Band 5H.G. Bohn, 1844 |
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... mentioned were true , it is not likely that he should have either solicited or obtained . One is anxious to believe that a life like Hawkesworth's , spent in advocating the interests of morality and religion , was not so miserably ...
... mentioned were true , it is not likely that he should have either solicited or obtained . One is anxious to believe that a life like Hawkesworth's , spent in advocating the interests of morality and religion , was not so miserably ...
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... mentioning , that on the second story we saw a vault which was , and still is , the family prison . There was a woman put into it by the Laird , for theft , within these ten years ; and any offender would be confined there yet ; for ...
... mentioning , that on the second story we saw a vault which was , and still is , the family prison . There was a woman put into it by the Laird , for theft , within these ten years ; and any offender would be confined there yet ; for ...
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... mentioned in a former page , as having been thrown by a giant to the top of a mountain . Dr. Johnson , who did not like to be left alone , said he would accompany us as far as riding was practicable . We ascended a part of the hill on ...
... mentioned in a former page , as having been thrown by a giant to the top of a mountain . Dr. Johnson , who did not like to be left alone , said he would accompany us as far as riding was practicable . We ascended a part of the hill on ...
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... mentioned , he told me he had never seen it : he had not gone formerly ; and he would not go now , just as a common spec- tator , for his money : he would not put it in the power of some man about the Duke of Marlborough to say ...
... mentioned , he told me he had never seen it : he had not gone formerly ; and he would not go now , just as a common spec- tator , for his money : he would not put it in the power of some man about the Duke of Marlborough to say ...
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... mentioned as one ; but he would not allow it , saying it was not a superstition , but a whim . Dr. Johnson would not admit the distinc- tion . There were many superstitions , he maintained , not connected with religion ; and this was ...
... mentioned as one ; but he would not allow it , saying it was not a superstition , but a whim . Dr. Johnson would not admit the distinc- tion . There were many superstitions , he maintained , not connected with religion ; and this was ...
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