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" Sir Joshua Reynolds, sir, is the most invulnerable man I know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel, you would find the most difficulty how to abuse. "
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, L. L. D. - Page 83
by James Boswell - 1810 - 414 pages
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ...

James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...Joshua Reynolds. This led Dr. Johnson and me to talk of our amiable and elegant friend, whose panegyrick he concluded by saying, ' Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir,...you would find the most difficulty how to abuse'.' 1 Horace. Odes, \. 2. * See ante, ii. 490. 1 Perhaps the poverty of their host led to this talk. Sir...
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The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ...

Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...JOSHUA REYNOLDS. Speaking of this great artist, he gave the following ' eulogium on him as a man : " Reynolds, Sir, is the most invulnerable man I know...you would find the most difficulty how to abuse." > SUICIDE. *' There is no situation a man can possibly be in tnat he has a right to put himself to...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the ...

James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...Joshua Reynolds. This led Dr. Johnson and me to talk of our amiable and elegant friend, whose pnnegyrick he concluded by saying, " Sir Joshua Reynolds, sir, is the most invulnerable man I kaow; the man with whom if you should quarrel, you would find the most difficulty how to abuse." Dr....
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...invulnerable man know; the man with whom if you should [uarrel, you would find the most difficulty low oduce, without an extension of its faculties by immediate inspiration; yet Mrs. Lucy Porter, ,han Mount Edgecumbe, reckoned the first 'n England; because, at Mount Edgecumbe, .he sea is bounded...
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The Daguerreotype, Volume 2

1848 - 572 pages
...round,' exclaimed Johnson, with honest envy. ' In illness and in pain, he is still the same. Sir, he is the most invulnerable man I know ; the man with whom, if you should quarrel, you will find the most difficulty how to abuse.' Nor was this praise obtained by preference of any, but...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...talk of our amiable and elegant friend, whose panegyric he concluded by saying, " Sir Joshua Keynolds, Sir, is the most invulnerable man I know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel, you will find the most difficulty how to abuse." Dr. Johnson observed, the situation here was the noblest...
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Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 7

Douglas Jerrold - 1848 - 576 pages
...round,' exclaimed Johnson, with honest envy. ' In illness and in pain, he is still the same. Sir, he is the most invulnerable man I know ; the man with whom, if you should quarrel, you will find the most difficulty how to abuse.' Nor was this praise obtained by preference of any, but...
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Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 7

Douglas Jerrold - 1848 - 578 pages
...round,' exclaimed Johnson, with honest envy. ' In illness and in pain, he is still the same. Sir, he is the most invulnerable man I know ; the man with whom, if you should quarrel, you will find the most difficulty how to abuse.' Nor was this praise obtained by preference of any, but...
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Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith

Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...round,' exclaimed Johnson, with honest envy. ' In illness and in pain, he is still the ' same. Sir, he is the most invulnerable man I know ; the 'man with whom, if you should quarrel, you will find 17ii7 TO 1774.] 525 ' the most difficulty how to abuse.' Nor was this praise obtained by...
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The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography in Four Books, Volume 1

John Forster - 1848 - 744 pages
...round,' exclaimed Johnson, with honest envy. ' In illness and in pain, he is still the ' same. Sir, he is the most invulnerable man I know ; the ' man with whom, if you should quarrel, you will find ' the most difficulty how to abuse.' Nor was this praise obtained by preference of any, but...
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