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... my dear sir , most sincerely to thank you for the many happy hours which I owe to your kindness - for the cordiality with which you have at all times been pleased to welcome me - for the number of valuable acquaintances to whom you ...
... my dear sir , most sincerely to thank you for the many happy hours which I owe to your kindness - for the cordiality with which you have at all times been pleased to welcome me - for the number of valuable acquaintances to whom you ...
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... letters , or conversation , being convinced that this mode is more lively , and will make my readers better acquainted with him , than even most of those were who actually knew him , but could know him only partially ; whereas there ...
... letters , or conversation , being convinced that this mode is more lively , and will make my readers better acquainted with him , than even most of those were who actually knew him , but could know him only partially ; whereas there ...
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... which represents him as careful of his health and negli- gent of his life . " But biography has often been allotted to writers who seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task , or very negligent about the performance .
... which represents him as careful of his health and negli- gent of his life . " But biography has often been allotted to writers who seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task , or very negligent about the performance .
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few can portray a living acquaintance , except by his most prominent and observable particularities , and the grosser features of his mind ; and it may be easily imagined how much of this little knowledge may be lost in imparting it ...
few can portray a living acquaintance , except by his most prominent and observable particularities , and the grosser features of his mind ; and it may be easily imagined how much of this little knowledge may be lost in imparting it ...
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And the ladies with whom he was acquainted agree , that no man was more nicely and minutely critical in the elegance of female dress . When I found that he saw the romantick beauties of Islam , in Derbyshire , much better than I did ...
And the ladies with whom he was acquainted agree , that no man was more nicely and minutely critical in the elegance of female dress . When I found that he saw the romantick beauties of Islam , in Derbyshire , much better than I did ...
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| Title | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Oxford English classics Volume 1 of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, James Boswell |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Publisher | Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 20 Sep 2010 |
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