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" He cannot deny himself the vanity of finishing with the encomium of Dr. Johnson, whose friendly partiality to the companion of his tour represents him as one "whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners... "
The life of Samuel Johnson. [Followed by] The journal of a tour to the Hebrides - Page 33
by James Boswell - 1851
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ...

James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...partiality to the companion of his Tour represents him as one ' whose acuteness would help my enquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation, and civility of...in countries less hospitable than we have passed'.' versant la Mediterranee sur de freles navires pour venir s'asseoir au foyer de la nationalite Corse,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 360 pages
...undertake the journey, by finding in Mr Boswell a companion, whose acuteness would help my enquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the inconveniencies of travel, in countries less hospitable than we have passed. On the eighteenth ef August...
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 37

1807 - 750 pages
...friendly partiality to the companion of this tour represents him as one ' whose aculenets would help any inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation, and civility...in countries less hospitable than we have passed.' Frw of Mr. Boswell's friends can, I believe, add much to this honest • and candid confession. His...
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The British Tourist's, Or, Traveller's Pocket Companion, Through ..., Volume 2

William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 378 pages
...undertake the journey, by finding in Mr. Bos•wcll a companion, whose acuteness would help my enquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners...in countries less hospitable than we have passed. On the 18th of August, we left Edinburgh, a. city too well known to admit description, and directed...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.

James Boswell - 1810 - 438 pages
...Johnson, whose friendly partiality to the companion of his Tour represents him as one, " whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation,...civility of manners, are sufficient to counteract the inconveniencies of travel, in countries less hospitable than we have passed." Dr. Johnson thought it...
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Works, Volume 8

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...year 1773 induced to undertake the journey, by finding in Mr. Boswell a companion, whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation...civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the inconveniencies of travel, in countries less hospitable than we have passed. On the eighteenth of August...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volume 8

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...year 1773 induced to undertake the journey, by finding. in Mr. Doswell a companion, whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation...civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the inconveniencies of travel, in countries less hospitable than we have passed. On the eighteenth of August...
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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ...

Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 534 pages
...partiality to the companion of this tour represents him as one ' whose acuteness would help my enquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation, and civility of manners, are sufficient to counteract the inconveniencies of travel, in countries less hospitable than we have passed'." His character in all...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson

James Boswell - 1813 - 484 pages
...tiality to the companion of his Tour represents him as one, fe whose acuteness would help my enquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation, and civility of...thought it unnecessary to put himself to the additional expence of bringing with him Francis Barber, his faithful black servant ; so we were attended only...
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 2

John Mason Good - 1813 - 764 pages
...whose friendly partiality to the companion of this tour represents him as one • whose jt HP ni • would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation,...travel, in countries less hospitable than we have pased." BOSWORTH, an ancient town of Leicestershire, with a market on Wednesdays. This place a famous...
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