Storming the Main Gate: The Dictionary, from Samuel JohnsonHarcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975 - 43 pagina's |
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... finished work , published nine years later , easily ranks as one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship , and probably the greatest ever per- formed by one individual in a comparable length of time and laboring under ...
... finished work , published nine years later , easily ranks as one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship , and probably the greatest ever per- formed by one individual in a comparable length of time and laboring under ...
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... 1,300 scholars ( it was to draw on at least another 1,000 before it was finished ) , and was to take seventy years to com- plete . Johnson , working in a cluttered room with the most meager of help and with few resources , 23.
... 1,300 scholars ( it was to draw on at least another 1,000 before it was finished ) , and was to take seventy years to com- plete . Johnson , working in a cluttered room with the most meager of help and with few resources , 23.
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... finished , would not some puff or recommendation from him still be possible ? Chesterfield had been ill most of the past year . Not only was he almost crippled by arthritis , but also he was afflicted with a growing deafness that ...
... finished , would not some puff or recommendation from him still be possible ? Chesterfield had been ill most of the past year . Not only was he almost crippled by arthritis , but also he was afflicted with a growing deafness that ...
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