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... conversation , your true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged hospitality which has long made your house a common centre of union for the great , the accomplished , the learned , and the ...
... conversation , your true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged hospitality which has long made your house a common centre of union for the great , the accomplished , the learned , and the ...
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... blemishes which marked the literary colossus . Your very warm commendation of the specimen which I gave in my Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , of my being able to preserve his conversation in an authen- vi DEDICATION .
... blemishes which marked the literary colossus . Your very warm commendation of the specimen which I gave in my Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , of my being able to preserve his conversation in an authen- vi DEDICATION .
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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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... conversations were preserved , I myself , at some distance of time , contemplate with wonder ; and I must be allowed to suggest , that the nature of the work , in other respects , as it consists of in- numerable detached particulars ...
... conversations were preserved , I myself , at some distance of time , contemplate with wonder ; and I must be allowed to suggest , that the nature of the work , in other respects , as it consists of in- numerable detached particulars ...
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... distinct portraiture , Johnson's companions clus- tered around their venerated master in all the grotesque variety of their undisguised character , listening to conversations of which Athens might have been justly PREFATORY NOTICE . ix.
... distinct portraiture , Johnson's companions clus- tered around their venerated master in all the grotesque variety of their undisguised character , listening to conversations of which Athens might have been justly PREFATORY NOTICE . ix.
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