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... enquire how the poor are maintained in the Seven Provinces . I am , dear Sir , London , Dec. 8 , 1763 . Your most affectionate servant , SAM : JOHNSON . TO MRS . THRALE Oxford , April 28 , 1768 . Madam , It is indeed a great alleviation ...
... enquire how the poor are maintained in the Seven Provinces . I am , dear Sir , London , Dec. 8 , 1763 . Your most affectionate servant , SAM : JOHNSON . TO MRS . THRALE Oxford , April 28 , 1768 . Madam , It is indeed a great alleviation ...
Page 214
... enquire the true orthography , which I have always considered as depend- ing on their derivation , and have therefore referred them to their original languages : thus I write enchant , enchantment , enchanter , after the French , and ...
... enquire the true orthography , which I have always considered as depend- ing on their derivation , and have therefore referred them to their original languages : thus I write enchant , enchantment , enchanter , after the French , and ...
Page 256
... not want the counsels and admonitions of scholars and criticks , and that he at last deliberately persisted in a practice , which 91778 : enquire . he might have begun by chance . As nothing is 256 JOHNSON : SELECTED PROSE AND POETRY.
... not want the counsels and admonitions of scholars and criticks , and that he at last deliberately persisted in a practice , which 91778 : enquire . he might have begun by chance . As nothing is 256 JOHNSON : SELECTED PROSE AND POETRY.
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