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Page 134
... conversation for its own sake , and had also a very allowable vanity in appearing to be honoured with the attention ... conversation , which I have preserved , are these : I told him that Voltaire , in a conversation with me , had ...
... conversation for its own sake , and had also a very allowable vanity in appearing to be honoured with the attention ... conversation , which I have preserved , are these : I told him that Voltaire , in a conversation with me , had ...
Page 306
... conversation there is more instruction , more information , and more elegance , than in Ramsay's . " BOSWELL . " What I admire in Ramsay , is his continuing to be so young . " JOHNSON . " Why , yes , Sir ; it is to be admired . I value ...
... conversation there is more instruction , more information , and more elegance , than in Ramsay's . " BOSWELL . " What I admire in Ramsay , is his continuing to be so young . " JOHNSON . " Why , yes , Sir ; it is to be admired . I value ...
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... conversation , he answered , " No , Sir ; we had talk enough , but no conversation ; there was nothing dis- cussed . " He said to Sir William Scott , " The age is running mad after innovation ; and all the business of the world is to be ...
... conversation , he answered , " No , Sir ; we had talk enough , but no conversation ; there was nothing dis- cussed . " He said to Sir William Scott , " The age is running mad after innovation ; and all the business of the world is to be ...
Contents
Editors Introduction | 1 |
From The Life of Samuel Johnson | 41 |
From The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides | 376 |
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