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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Page xi
... person whose ability to take down speeches with perfect exactness was denied by Johnson was Sir Henry Cavendish , the parliamentary reporter ( ii . 224 : see Boswell Papers , vi . 145 ) : the gentleman who doubted the existence of a ...
... person whose ability to take down speeches with perfect exactness was denied by Johnson was Sir Henry Cavendish , the parliamentary reporter ( ii . 224 : see Boswell Papers , vi . 145 ) : the gentleman who doubted the existence of a ...
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... person whose life Johnson wrote , was her son ; or shall we not rather believe that the person who then assumed the name of Richard Savage was an impostor , being in reality the son of the shoe- maker , under whose wife's care 2 Lady ...
... person whose life Johnson wrote , was her son ; or shall we not rather believe that the person who then assumed the name of Richard Savage was an impostor , being in reality the son of the shoe- maker , under whose wife's care 2 Lady ...
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... person's child may be made the child of another person by adoption , as among the Romans , or by the ancient Jewish mode of a wife having children borne to her upon her knees , by her handmaid . But these were children in a different ...
... person's child may be made the child of another person by adoption , as among the Romans , or by the ancient Jewish mode of a wife having children borne to her upon her knees , by her handmaid . But these were children in a different ...
Contents
DR HILLS DEDICATION TO JOWETT | xxix |
TITLEPAGE OF THE THIRD EDITION | xlvii |
Advertisement to the Life | 23 |
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