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The Works of Samuel Johnson - Page 246
by Samuel Johnson - 1816
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1775 - 400 pages
...me how much I honoured her country by coming to furvey it. . • .' -T - * She had been at Invernefs to gain the common female qualifications, and had, like her father, the Englim pronunciation. I prefented her with a book, which I happened to have about me, and mould not...
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1785 - 400 pages
...civilities without embarraffment, and told me how much I honoured her country by coming to furvey it. She had been at Inverness to gain the common female qualifications, and had, like her father, the Englifh pronunciation. I preferred her with a book, which I happened pened to have about me, and fhould...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1785 - 546 pages
...nymph. " They never adverted (faid he) that I had no choice in the matter. I have faid that I prefented her with a book which I happened to have about me." — And what was this book? — My readers, prepare your features for merriment. It was Cocker's Aritbttutick...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - Hebrides - 1785 - 548 pages
...nymph. " They never adverted (faid he) that I had no choice in the matter. -I have faid that I prefented her with a book which I happened to have about me." — And what was this book ? My readers, prepare your features for merriment. It was Cocker's Aritbmetick !...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ...

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...Highland nymph. 'They never adverted (said he) that I had no choice in the matter. I have said that I presented her with a book which I happened to have about me.' And what was this book ? My readers, prepare your features for merriment. It was Cocker's Arithmctick!...
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Political tracts. Political essays. Miscellaneous essays. A journey to the ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...embarraffinent, and told me how much I honoured her country by coming to furvey it. She had been at Invernefs to gain the common female qualifications, and had, like her father, the Englijh pronunciation. I prefented her with a book, which I happened to have about me, and fhould not...
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A Tour Through the Highlands of Scotland, and the Hebride Isles, in MDCCLXXXVI.

John Knox - Fisheries - 1787 - 566 pages
...embarraflment, and told me, how much I honoured her country by coming to furvey it. She had been at Invernefs to gain the common female qualifications, and had, like her father, the Englifh pronounciation. I jjrefented Jher jsjth_a book_ •which I happened to have about me, and mould...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Political tracts. Political essays ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 550 pages
...embarraffinent, and told me how much I honoured her country by coming to furvey it. She had been at Invernefs to gain the common female qualifications, and had, like her father, the Englijt) pronunciation. I prefented her with a book, which I happened to have about me, and fhould...
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1792 - 258 pages
...embarraflment, and told me how much I honoured her country by coming to furvey it. She had been at Invernefs to gain the common female qualifications, and had, like her father, the Englifh pronunciation. I prelented her with a book, which I happened to have about me, and fhould not...
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1800 - 302 pages
...civilities without embarrassment, and told me how much I honoured her country by coming to survey it. She had been at Inverness to gain the common female qualifications,...pleased to think that she forgets me. In the evening the solders, whom we had passed on the road, came to spend at our inn the little money that we had given,...
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