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He has also transcribed the unappropriated hints on Writers for bread, in which he decyphers these notable passages, one in Latin, fatui non famae, instead of fami non famae; Johnson having in his mind what Thuanus says of the learned German antiquary and linguist,
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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France _50l. _ more, besides his clothes and pocket money: in return to all this, he instructed our eldest daughter -- or thought he did -- and puffed her about the town for a wit, a genius, a linguist,
Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings Hester Lynch Piozzi 1781
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` cunnilingist, '"I informed him," and our cunning linguist,
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