The Life of Samuel Johnson, Including A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Band 3G. Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1909 |
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... mentioned our names , and begged he would tell us what he knew about it . He was a very civil old man , but could only inform us that it was supposed to have stood eight hundred years . He told us there was a colony of Danes in his ...
... mentioned our names , and begged he would tell us what he knew about it . He was a very civil old man , but could only inform us that it was supposed to have stood eight hundred years . He told us there was a colony of Danes in his ...
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... mentioned above . - ED . ] * He could not bear to have it thought that , in any instance whatever , the Scots are more pious than the English . I think grace as proper at breakfast as at any other meal . It is the pleasantest meal we ...
... mentioned above . - ED . ] * He could not bear to have it thought that , in any instance whatever , the Scots are more pious than the English . I think grace as proper at breakfast as at any other meal . It is the pleasantest meal we ...
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... mentioned , he said , he had more anecdotes than any man . I said , Percy had a great many ; that he flowed with them like one of the brooks here . — JOHNSON : " If Percy is like one of the brooks here , Birch was like the river Thames ...
... mentioned , he said , he had more anecdotes than any man . I said , Percy had a great many ; that he flowed with them like one of the brooks here . — JOHNSON : " If Percy is like one of the brooks here , Birch was like the river Thames ...
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Sir George Mackenzie Mr Burkes wit knowledge and elo | 18 |
Ogden on Prayer Aphoristic writing Edinburgh surveyed | 28 |
Dr Watson Literature and patronage Writing and conversation | 37 |
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