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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to ... - Page 51
by James Boswell - 1884
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ...

James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...of society, if a friendship of twenty years is to be broken off for such a cause ?' As Bacon says, 'Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns...should do also.' He replied, ' I hope I shall.' MONDAY, AUGUST 23. Principal Campbell, Sir Alexander Gordon, Professor Gordon, and Professor Ross, visited...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.

James Boswell - 1810 - 438 pages
...of society, if a friendship of twenty years is to be broken off for such a cause ?" As Bacon says, " Who then to frail mortality shall trust, " But limns...Christianity; for that, although a reverence for it shines' | works in several places, that is not enough. *. vru B.iit»\v, (said I,) what Grotius has done, and...
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The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson

James Boswell - 1813 - 484 pages
...of society, if a friendship of twenty years is to be broken off for such a cause ?" As Bacon says, " Who then to frail mortality shall trust, " But limns...also." — He replied. " I hope I shall." MONDAY, AUGUST 23. Principal Campbell, Sir Alexander Gordon, Professor Gordon, and Professor Ross, visited...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson

James Boswell - 1813 - 492 pages
...years is to be broken off for such a cause ?" As Bacon says, " Who then to frail mortality shall trust, I said, he should write expressly in support of Christianity...do also."— He replied, " I hope I shall." MONDAY, AUGUST 23. Principal Campbell, Sir Alexander Gordon, Professor Gordon, and Professor Ross, visited...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - 1831 - 612 pages
...of society, if a friendship of twenty years is to be broken off for such a cause ?" As Bacon says, " Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns...should do also." He replied, " I hope I shall." Monday, 23d August.—Principal Campbell, Sir Alexander Gordon, Professor Gordon, and Professor Ross, visited...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the ...

James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...of society, if a friendship of twenty years is to be broken off for such a cause?" As Bacon says, " Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns...should do also." He replied, " I hope I shall." Monday, 23rf August.— Principal Campbell, Sir Alexander Gordon, Professor Gordon, and Professor Ross, visited...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...of society, if a friendship of twenty years is to be broken off for such a cause? " As Bacon says, " mination is habitual, that I cannot omit it: — "June...length of time and frequency of experiment. This 23d August. — Principal Campbell, Sir Alexander Gordon, Professor Gordon, and Professor Ross, visited...
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Lodore, by the author of 'Frankenstein'.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1835 - 910 pages
...Lady Santerre's advice and directions by which to regulate her conduct on this occasion. CHAPTER X. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust. BACON. THEY arrived in Berkeley- square. Lady Lodore alighted, and perceived with something of a beating...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D: Including A Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
...of society, if a friendship of twenty years is to be broken off for such a cause? " As Bacon says, " Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns...writes in dust." I said, he should write, expressly in supsort of Christianity; for that, although a reverence for it shines through his works in several...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. [Followed by] The journal of a tour to ..., Volume 5

James Boswell - 1851 - 410 pages
...society, if a friendship of twenty years is to be broken off for such a cause ?" As Ba«on* says, " Who, then, to frail mortality shall trust, But limns...should do also." He replied, " I hope I shall." MONDAY, AUGUST 23. Principal Campbell,! Sir Alexander Gordon, Professor Gordon, and Professor RossJ visited...
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