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His contributions to my collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my Tour to the Hebrides , I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of his kind appro- bation . Dr. Adams , eminent as the head ...
His contributions to my collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my Tour to the Hebrides , I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of his kind appro- bation . Dr. Adams , eminent as the head ...
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... biographers have entered upon such a work as this with more advantages ; independent of lite- rary abilities , in which I am not vain enough to compare myself with some great names who have gone before me in this kind of writing .
... biographers have entered upon such a work as this with more advantages ; independent of lite- rary abilities , in which I am not vain enough to compare myself with some great names who have gone before me in this kind of writing .
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... but interweaving what he privately wrote , and said , and thought ; by which man- kind are enabled , as it were , to see him live , and to " live o'er each scene " with him , as he actually advanced through c Brit . Mus . 4320.
... but interweaving what he privately wrote , and said , and thought ; by which man- kind are enabled , as it were , to see him live , and to " live o'er each scene " with him , as he actually advanced through c Brit . Mus . 4320.
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If a life be delay- ed till interest and envy are at an end , we may hope for impartiality , but must expect little intelligence ; for the in- cidents which give excellence to biography are of a vola- tile and evanescent kind , such as ...
If a life be delay- ed till interest and envy are at an end , we may hope for impartiality , but must expect little intelligence ; for the in- cidents which give excellence to biography are of a vola- tile and evanescent kind , such as ...
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In Stow's Annals may be found an account of the first cure of the kind which the benevolent Saxon monarch performed . A piece of gold was given to all those who were touched , which may partially exculpate the poorer part of our ...
In Stow's Annals may be found an account of the first cure of the kind which the benevolent Saxon monarch performed . A piece of gold was given to all those who were touched , which may partially exculpate the poorer part of our ...
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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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