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Page vii
In one respect this work will , in some passages , be different from the former . In my Tour , I was almost unboundedly open in my communications ; and from my eagerness to display the wonderful fertility and readiness of Johnson's wit ...
In one respect this work will , in some passages , be different from the former . In my Tour , I was almost unboundedly open in my communications ; and from my eagerness to display the wonderful fertility and readiness of Johnson's wit ...
Page ix
... at some distance of time , contemplate with wonder ; and I must be allowed to suggest , that the nature of the work , in other respects , as it consists of in- numerable detached particulars , all which , even the most minute ...
... at some distance of time , contemplate with wonder ; and I must be allowed to suggest , that the nature of the work , in other respects , as it consists of in- numerable detached particulars , all which , even the most minute ...
Page x
I have also been extremely careful as to the exactness of my quotations ; holding that there is a respect due to the publick , which should oblige every author to attend to this , and never to presume to intro- duce them with ...
I have also been extremely careful as to the exactness of my quotations ; holding that there is a respect due to the publick , which should oblige every author to attend to this , and never to presume to intro- duce them with ...
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It seems to me , in my moments of self - complacency , that this extensive biographical work , however inferior in its nature , may in one respect be assimilated to the Odyssey . Amidst a thousand entertaining and instructive episodes ...
It seems to me , in my moments of self - complacency , that this extensive biographical work , however inferior in its nature , may in one respect be assimilated to the Odyssey . Amidst a thousand entertaining and instructive episodes ...
Page xx
Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands ; ack . 1772. Defence of a Schoolmaster ; dictated to me for the house of lords ; acknowl . Argument in support of the Law of Vicious Intromission ; dictated to me for the ...
Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands ; ack . 1772. Defence of a Schoolmaster ; dictated to me for the house of lords ; acknowl . Argument in support of the Law of Vicious Intromission ; dictated to me for the ...
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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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