Excerpt from Samuel Johnson: The Leslie Stephen Lecture, Delivered in the Senate House, Cambridge, 22 February 1907 The honour that the University of Cambridge has done me by asking me to deliver the first Leslie Stephen lecture is the best kind of honour, for it appeals even more to affection than to pride. Like most men whose trade is lecturing, I have known many Universities but noneofthemcanbe sodeartomemoryasthefirsnthe place of my early friendships, and dreams, and idleness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books ...
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Excerpt from Samuel Johnson: The Leslie Stephen Lecture, Delivered in the Senate House, Cambridge, 22 February 1907 The honour that the University of Cambridge has done me by asking me to deliver the first Leslie Stephen lecture is the best kind of honour, for it appeals even more to affection than to pride. Like most men whose trade is lecturing, I have known many Universities but noneofthemcanbe sodeartomemoryasthefirsnthe place of my early friendships, and dreams, and idleness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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