Boswell's Life of Johnson, Together with Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebride and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Volume 1 |
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... master ' Johnson described him as a peevish and ill - tempered man , ' and not so good a scholar or teacher as Taylor made out . Once the boys perceived that he did not understand a part of the Latin lesson ; another time , when sent up ...
... master ' Johnson described him as a peevish and ill - tempered man , ' and not so good a scholar or teacher as Taylor made out . Once the boys perceived that he did not understand a part of the Latin lesson ; another time , when sent up ...
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... master . Yet he taught me a great deal . ' < He thus discriminated , to Dr. Percy , Bishop of Dromore , his progress at his two grammar - schools . At one , I learnt much in the school , but little from the master ; in the other , I ...
... master . Yet he taught me a great deal . ' < He thus discriminated , to Dr. Percy , Bishop of Dromore , his progress at his two grammar - schools . At one , I learnt much in the school , but little from the master ; in the other , I ...
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... Master of Arts , Dr. Adams was applied to , by a common friend. ( post , In a billet written by Mr. Pope in the following year , this school is said to have been in Shropshire p . 143 ) ; but as it appears from a letter from Earl Gower ...
... Master of Arts , Dr. Adams was applied to , by a common friend. ( post , In a billet written by Mr. Pope in the following year , this school is said to have been in Shropshire p . 143 ) ; but as it appears from a letter from Earl Gower ...
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DR HILLS DEDICATION TO JOWETT | xxix |
TITLEPAGE OF THE THIRD EDITION | xlvii |
Advertisement to the Life | 23 |
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