The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: comprising a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons ...Routledge, 1867 - 526 pages |
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... James Boswell. PAGE Chambers in the Temple - Description of Johnson -Meeting at " The Mitre " Tavern - Record of his Opinions of Gray , Goldsmith , & c . - Advice to Bos- well CHAP . XIII . 1763. - Account of Goldsmith - John- son's ...
... James Boswell. PAGE Chambers in the Temple - Description of Johnson -Meeting at " The Mitre " Tavern - Record of his Opinions of Gray , Goldsmith , & c . - Advice to Bos- well CHAP . XIII . 1763. - Account of Goldsmith - John- son's ...
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... James Boswell. PAGE CHAP . XXVIII . 1776. - Boswell again visits London -Bolt Court - Law of Entails - Adam Smith's " Wealth of Nations " -Lawyers and Lawsuits- Scotch Militia Bill- " Johnsoniana " -Excursion to Oxford with Boswell ...
... James Boswell. PAGE CHAP . XXVIII . 1776. - Boswell again visits London -Bolt Court - Law of Entails - Adam Smith's " Wealth of Nations " -Lawyers and Lawsuits- Scotch Militia Bill- " Johnsoniana " -Excursion to Oxford with Boswell ...
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... James Boswell. PAGE CHAP . XXXIX . 1778. - Meeting with Edwards , an old Fellow Collegian - Practice of the Law - Life of a Clergyman - Philosophy - Wine - drinking - Leaving a Fortune to a College - Tom Tyers - Johnson's opinion of a ...
... James Boswell. PAGE CHAP . XXXIX . 1778. - Meeting with Edwards , an old Fellow Collegian - Practice of the Law - Life of a Clergyman - Philosophy - Wine - drinking - Leaving a Fortune to a College - Tom Tyers - Johnson's opinion of a ...
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... James Boswell. foibles had been a little more shaded ; but it is useful to see the weaknesses incident to great minds and you have given us Dr. Johnson's authority that in history all ought to be told . " Such a sanction to my faculty of ...
... James Boswell. foibles had been a little more shaded ; but it is useful to see the weaknesses incident to great minds and you have given us Dr. Johnson's authority that in history all ought to be told . " Such a sanction to my faculty of ...
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... James Boswell. frequently at the house of Dr. Swinfen , a gentle- man of very ancient family in Staffordshire , from which , after the death of his elder brother , he inherited a good estate . He was , besides , a physician of very ...
... James Boswell. frequently at the house of Dr. Swinfen , a gentle- man of very ancient family in Staffordshire , from which , after the death of his elder brother , he inherited a good estate . He was , besides , a physician of very ...
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