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... of its gratifi- cations . I am , My dear sir , Your much obliged friend , And faithful humble servant , JAMES BOSWELL . London , April 20 , 1791 . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION . I AT last deliver viii DEDICATION .
... of its gratifi- cations . I am , My dear sir , Your much obliged friend , And faithful humble servant , JAMES BOSWELL . London , April 20 , 1791 . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION . I AT last deliver viii DEDICATION .
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... . Let me only observe , as a specimen of my trou- ble , that I have sometimes been obliged to run half over London , in order to fix a date correctly ; which , when I had accomplished , I well knew would obtain me no.
... . Let me only observe , as a specimen of my trou- ble , that I have sometimes been obliged to run half over London , in order to fix a date correctly ; which , when I had accomplished , I well knew would obtain me no.
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... oblige every author to attend to this , and never to presume to intro- duce them with , " I think I have read ; " or If I re- member right ; " when the originals may be examined . I beg leave to express my warmest thanks to those ...
... oblige every author to attend to this , and never to presume to intro- duce them with , " I think I have read ; " or If I re- member right ; " when the originals may be examined . I beg leave to express my warmest thanks to those ...
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... obliging friend . In the strangely mixed scenes of human existence , our feelings are often at once pleasing and painful . Of this truth , the progress of the present work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me ...
... obliging friend . In the strangely mixed scenes of human existence , our feelings are often at once pleasing and painful . Of this truth , the progress of the present work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me ...
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... creatures ; and yet I had rather read the worst of them , than be obliged to go through with this of Milton's , or the other's life of Boileau , where B 2 DR . JOHNSON . 3 of a diary and other papers as were left; ...
... creatures ; and yet I had rather read the worst of them , than be obliged to go through with this of Milton's , or the other's life of Boileau , where B 2 DR . JOHNSON . 3 of a diary and other papers as were left; ...
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