The Portable Johnson & BoswellViking Press, 1947 - 762 pages Two great and vivid personalitites of English letters revealed in their most charactersitc writings; Johnson; critical essays, letters, poems: Boswell; Life of Johnson, Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, and the Dialogue with Rousseau, etc. |
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Page 24
... truth was united with the very rare ability . Only these few men have not required some sort of mask , or not wound up striking some sort of at- titude . Possibly it was Boswell's permitting himself so much play - acting and fancy dress ...
... truth was united with the very rare ability . Only these few men have not required some sort of mask , or not wound up striking some sort of at- titude . Possibly it was Boswell's permitting himself so much play - acting and fancy dress ...
Page 181
... truth never can prevail ; and the magistrate was right in persecuting the first Christians . " JOHNSON . " Sir , the only method by which religious truth can be es- tablished is by martyrdom . The magistrate has a right to enforce what ...
... truth never can prevail ; and the magistrate was right in persecuting the first Christians . " JOHNSON . " Sir , the only method by which religious truth can be es- tablished is by martyrdom . The magistrate has a right to enforce what ...
Page 297
... truth , or hurt himself by telling what is not true . " Boswell . “ A man often shews his writings to people of eminence , to obtain from them , either from their good - nature , or from their not being able to tell the truth firmly , a ...
... truth , or hurt himself by telling what is not true . " Boswell . “ A man often shews his writings to people of eminence , to obtain from them , either from their good - nature , or from their not being able to tell the truth firmly , a ...
Contents
Editors Introduction | 1 |
From The Life of Samuel Johnson | 41 |
From The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides | 376 |
Copyright | |
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