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Page viii
This , how- ever , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though ma- lignity may sometimes be disappointed of its gratifi- cations . I am , My dear sir , Your much obliged friend ...
This , how- ever , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though ma- lignity may sometimes be disappointed of its gratifi- cations . I am , My dear sir , Your much obliged friend ...
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... who was so good as to allow me to read to him almost the whole of my manuscript , and made such re- marks as were greatly for the advantage of the work ; though it is but fair to him to mention , that upon many occasions I differed ...
... who was so good as to allow me to read to him almost the whole of my manuscript , and made such re- marks as were greatly for the advantage of the work ; though it is but fair to him to mention , that upon many occasions I differed ...
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What reason I had to hope for the countenance of that venerable gentleman to this work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford , November 17 , 1785 " Dear sir , I hazard this letter , not knowing where ...
What reason I had to hope for the countenance of that venerable gentleman to this work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford , November 17 , 1785 " Dear sir , I hazard this letter , not knowing where ...
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... which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and entertaining ; and of which the specimens that I have given upon a former occasion , have been re- ceived with so much approbation , that I have good grounds ...
... which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and entertaining ; and of which the specimens that I have given upon a former occasion , have been re- ceived with so much approbation , that I have good grounds ...
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I am fully aware of the objections which may be made to the minuteness , on some occasions , of my detail of John- son's conversation , and how happily it is adapted for the petty exercise of ridicule , by men of superficial under- ...
I am fully aware of the objections which may be made to the minuteness , on some occasions , of my detail of John- son's conversation , and how happily it is adapted for the petty exercise of ridicule , by men of superficial under- ...
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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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