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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ... - Page 139
by James Boswell - 1791 - 516 pages
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The British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, Sciences, History, Geography ...

1838 - 1050 pages
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The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 pages
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 624 pages
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The Young Man's Book of Classical Letters: Consisting of Epistolary ...

Author of The young man's own book - 1841 - 338 pages
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
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Class Book of Prose: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English and ...

John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D: Including A Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
...your lordship. To be ao distinguished is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. "When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind,...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours yp ` BM $ 34 U some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind,...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pages
...your lordship. To be BO distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind,...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
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