Boswell's Life of JohnsonOxford University Press, 1904 - 704 strani |
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Stran xi
... Conversation , have been told with that authentic Precision which alone can render Biography valuable . To correct these erroneous Accounts will be one of his principal Objects ; and on reviewing his Materials , he is happy to find that ...
... Conversation , have been told with that authentic Precision which alone can render Biography valuable . To correct these erroneous Accounts will be one of his principal Objects ; and on reviewing his Materials , he is happy to find that ...
Stran xvii
... conversation , and is , as Boswell himself asserts in the opening paragraphs of the work , the distinguishing feature of the whole . Moreover , it may be conceded without doing any injus- tice to Boswell , that he preferred to exhibit ...
... conversation , and is , as Boswell himself asserts in the opening paragraphs of the work , the distinguishing feature of the whole . Moreover , it may be conceded without doing any injus- tice to Boswell , that he preferred to exhibit ...
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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 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 sneering observation of Mr ...
... 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 sneering observation of Mr ...
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... conversation , and how happily it is adapted for the petty exercise of ridicule , by men of superficial understanding and ludicrous fancy ; but I remain firm and confident in my opinion , that minute particulars are frequently charac ...
... conversation , and how happily it is adapted for the petty exercise of ridicule , by men of superficial understanding and ludicrous fancy ; but I remain firm and confident in my opinion , that minute particulars are frequently charac ...
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