The Life of Samuel JohnsonModern Library, 1952 - 559 pagina's |
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Pagina 53
... doubt whether I should not attribute to myself too much in attempting to decide them , and whether my province was to extend beyond the proposition of the question , and the display of the suffrages on each side ; but I have been since ...
... doubt whether I should not attribute to myself too much in attempting to decide them , and whether my province was to extend beyond the proposition of the question , and the display of the suffrages on each side ; but I have been since ...
Pagina 183
... doubt , Sir , if any Scotchman ever attains to a perfect English pronunciation . ' Johnson . ' Why , Sir , few of them do , because they do not persevere after acquiring a cer- tain degree of it . But , Sir , there can be no doubt that ...
... doubt , Sir , if any Scotchman ever attains to a perfect English pronunciation . ' Johnson . ' Why , Sir , few of them do , because they do not persevere after acquiring a cer- tain degree of it . But , Sir , there can be no doubt that ...
Pagina 239
... doubts which , in my correspondence with him , I had ventured to state as to the justice and wisdom of the conduct of ... doubt ; and , indeed , he owned to me , that it had been revised and curtailed by some of them . His pamphlets in ...
... doubts which , in my correspondence with him , I had ventured to state as to the justice and wisdom of the conduct of ... doubt ; and , indeed , he owned to me , that it had been revised and curtailed by some of them . His pamphlets in ...
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