The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland, 1787 - 605 sivua |
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... reflection could add to it . I have heard him repeat , with scarce a mistake of a word , paffages from favourite authors , of three or four octavo pages in length . One inftance of the greatnefs of his retentive faculty himfelf has ...
... reflection could add to it . I have heard him repeat , with scarce a mistake of a word , paffages from favourite authors , of three or four octavo pages in length . One inftance of the greatnefs of his retentive faculty himfelf has ...
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... reflected on the means of improving it . His acquifitions at school and at the university , and the improvement he had made of his talents in the ftudy of the French and Ita- lian languages , qualified him in an eminent degree , for an ...
... reflected on the means of improving it . His acquifitions at school and at the university , and the improvement he had made of his talents in the ftudy of the French and Ita- lian languages , qualified him in an eminent degree , for an ...
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... reflection is known to have in- terrupted it . Johnfon has told me , that whole nights have been spent by him and ... reflected with as little 48 THE LIFE OF.
... reflection is known to have in- terrupted it . Johnfon has told me , that whole nights have been spent by him and ... reflected with as little 48 THE LIFE OF.
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John Hawkins. reafon to think , that he reflected with as little appro- bation on the hours he spent with Savage as on any period of his life . Doubtless there is in the example and converfation of fome men a ... reflected with as little ...
John Hawkins. reafon to think , that he reflected with as little appro- bation on the hours he spent with Savage as on any period of his life . Doubtless there is in the example and converfation of fome men a ... reflected with as little ...
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... reflection on that distress , which by this time had brought his wife to town , and obliged her to participate in the inconveniences of a dwelling too obscure to invite refort , and to be a witnefs of the difficulties with which he was ...
... reflection on that distress , which by this time had brought his wife to town , and obliged her to participate in the inconveniences of a dwelling too obscure to invite refort , and to be a witnefs of the difficulties with which he was ...
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