The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 1Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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James Boswell. my being able to preserve his conversation in an authen- tick and lively manner , which opinion the publick has confirmed , was the best encouragement for me to per- severe in my purpose of producing the whole of my stores ...
James Boswell. my being able to preserve his conversation in an authen- tick and lively manner , which opinion the publick has confirmed , was the best encouragement for me to per- severe in my purpose of producing the whole of my stores ...
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James Boswell. listening to conversations of which Athens might have been justly proud . And if amidst those conversations we are sometimes surprised at lively paradox , on subjects too grave for trifling ; let us not forget that the ...
James Boswell. listening to conversations of which Athens might have been justly proud . And if amidst those conversations we are sometimes surprised at lively paradox , on subjects too grave for trifling ; let us not forget that the ...
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... conversation , being convinced that this mode is more lively , and will make my readers better acquainted with him , than even most of those were who actually knew him , but could know him only partially ; whereas there is here an ...
... conversation , being convinced that this mode is more lively , and will make my readers better acquainted with him , than even most of those were who actually knew him , but could know him only partially ; whereas there is here an ...
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... conversation ; which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and entertaining ; and of which the specimens that I have given upon a former occasion , have been re- ceived with so much approbation , that I have ...
... conversation ; which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and entertaining ; and of which the specimens that I have given upon a former occasion , have been re- ceived with so much approbation , that I have ...
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James Boswell. That the conversation of a celebrated man , if his talents have been exerted in conversation , will best display his character , is , I trust , too well established in the judgment of mankind to be at all shaken by a ...
James Boswell. That the conversation of a celebrated man , if his talents have been exerted in conversation , will best display his character , is , I trust , too well established in the judgment of mankind to be at all shaken by a ...
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