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" I had looked into a great many books, which were not commonly known at the Universities, where they seldom read any books but what are put into their hands by their tutors; so that when I came to Oxford, Dr. Adams, now master of Pembroke College, told... "
The Georgian Era: Voyagers and travellers. Philosophers and men of science ... - Page 307
1834
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Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - Oxford (England) - 1897 - 588 pages
...Lichfield Cathedral and Archdeacon of Salop. When Johnson first entered the College Adams told him that he was the best qualified for the University that he had ever known come there. But his reading at Oxford, as all through his life, was desultory and fitful. He gorged half a book...
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