Boswell's Life of Johnson, Together with Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebride and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1934 - 556 pages |
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... known to the present , and will continue to be the admiration of future ages . Your equal and placid temper , your variety of conversation , your true politeness 2 , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged ...
... known to the present , and will continue to be the admiration of future ages . Your equal and placid temper , your variety of conversation , your true politeness 2 , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged ...
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... known at the Univer- sities , where they seldom read any books but what are put into their hands by their tutors ; so that when I came to Oxford , Dr. Adams , now master of Pembroke College , told me , I was the best qualified for the ...
... known at the Univer- sities , where they seldom read any books but what are put into their hands by their tutors ; so that when I came to Oxford , Dr. Adams , now master of Pembroke College , told me , I was the best qualified for the ...
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... known to the world for his daring defiance of power , when he thought it exerted on the side of wrong , he thus speaks : ' The Irish ministers drove him from his native country by pro- clamation , in which they charged him with crimes ...
... known to the world for his daring defiance of power , when he thought it exerted on the side of wrong , he thus speaks : ' The Irish ministers drove him from his native country by pro- clamation , in which they charged him with crimes ...
Contents
DR HILLS DEDICATION TO JOWETT | xxix |
TITLEPAGE OF THE THIRD EDITION | xlvii |
Advertisement to the Life | 23 |
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