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Your equal and placid temper , your variety of conversation , your true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged hospitality which has long made your house a common centre of union for the great ...
Your equal and placid temper , your variety of conversation , your true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged hospitality which has long made your house a common centre of union for the great ...
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... and slight blemishes which marked the literary colossus . Your very warm commendation of the specimen which I gave in my Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , of my being able to preserve his conversation in an authen- vi DEDICATION .
... and slight blemishes which marked the literary colossus . Your very warm commendation of the specimen which I gave in my Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , of my being able to preserve his conversation in an authen- vi DEDICATION .
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my being able to preserve his conversation in an authen- tick and lively manner , which opinion the publick has confirmed , was the best encouragement for me to per- severe in my purpose of producing the whole of my stores .
my being able to preserve his conversation in an authen- tick and lively manner , which opinion the publick has confirmed , was the best encouragement for me to per- severe in my purpose of producing the whole of my stores .
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The stretch of mind and prompt assiduity by which so many conversations were preserved , I myself , at some distance of time , contemplate with wonder ; and I must be allowed to suggest , that the nature of the work , in other respects ...
The stretch of mind and prompt assiduity by which so many conversations were preserved , I myself , at some distance of time , contemplate with wonder ; and I must be allowed to suggest , that the nature of the work , in other respects ...
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in recollecting , and was very assiduous in recording , his conversation , of which the extraordinary vigour and viva- city constituted one of the first features of his character ; and as I have spared no pains in obtaining materials ...
in recollecting , and was very assiduous in recording , his conversation , of which the extraordinary vigour and viva- city constituted one of the first features of his character ; and as I have spared no pains in obtaining materials ...
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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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