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known to the world , that he has been thought worthy of particular attention by a person of the first eminence in the age in which he lived , whose company has been universally courted ; I am justified in availing myself of the usual ...
known to the world , that he has been thought worthy of particular attention by a person of the first eminence in the age in which he lived , whose company has been universally courted ; I am justified in availing myself of the usual ...
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... chievous in men of eminence to give way to merriment . The idle and illiterate will often shelter themselves under what they say in those moments . ” — Life of BLACKMORE . to be a great fool , as to that particular DEDICATION . vii.
... chievous in men of eminence to give way to merriment . The idle and illiterate will often shelter themselves under what they say in those moments . ” — Life of BLACKMORE . to be a great fool , as to that particular DEDICATION . vii.
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to be a great fool , as to that particular , on which it has become necessary to speak very plainly . I have , there- fore , in this work been more reserved ; and though I tell nothing but the truth , I have still kept in my mind that ...
to be a great fool , as to that particular , on which it has become necessary to speak very plainly . I have , there- fore , in this work been more reserved ; and though I tell nothing but the truth , I have still kept in my mind that ...
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That reception has excited my best exertions to render my book more perfect ; and in this endeavour I have had the assistance not only of some of my particular friends , but of many other learned and ingenious men , by which I have been ...
That reception has excited my best exertions to render my book more perfect ; and in this endeavour I have had the assistance not only of some of my particular friends , but of many other learned and ingenious men , by which I have been ...
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We cannot , indeed , too much or too often admire his wonderful powers of mind , when we consider that the principal store of wit and wisdom which this work contains , was not a particular selection from his general conversa- tion ...
We cannot , indeed , too much or too often admire his wonderful powers of mind , when we consider that the principal store of wit and wisdom which this work contains , was not a particular selection from his general conversa- tion ...
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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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