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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 ...
Page ix
Were I to detail the books which I have consulted , and the en- quiries which I have found it necessary to make by various channels , I should probably be thought ridiculously osten- tatious . Let me only observe , as a specimen of my ...
Were I to detail the books which I have consulted , and the en- quiries which I have found it necessary to make by various channels , I should probably be thought ridiculously osten- tatious . Let me only observe , as a specimen of my ...
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... on my return from the country , and in which you have depicted our friend so perfectly to my fancy , in every attitude , every scene and situation , that I have thought myself in the company , and of the party almost throughout .
... on my return from the country , and in which you have depicted our friend so perfectly to my fancy , in every attitude , every scene and situation , that I have thought myself in the company , and of the party almost throughout .
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Indeed I cannot conceive a more perfect mode of writ- ing any man's life , than not only relating all the most im- portant events of it in their order , but interweaving what he privately wrote , and said , and thought ; by which man- ...
Indeed I cannot conceive a more perfect mode of writ- ing any man's life , than not only relating all the most im- portant events of it in their order , but interweaving what he privately wrote , and said , and thought ; by which man- ...
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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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