Boswell's Life of JohnsonHumphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1922 |
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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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... conversation , never failed to display all the varieties of intellectual excellence . In his march through this world to a better , his mind still appeared grand and brilliant , and impressed all around him with the truth of Virgil's ...
... conversation , never failed to display all the varieties of intellectual excellence . In his march through this world to a better , his mind still appeared grand and brilliant , and impressed all around him with the truth of Virgil's ...
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... formed his judgement of others , we may be abso- lutely certain , both from his writings and his conversation , that his reading was very extensive . Dr. Adam Smith , 1729 ] HIS RAPID READING AND COMPOSITION 49 than whom.
... formed his judgement of others , we may be abso- lutely certain , both from his writings and his conversation , that his reading was very extensive . Dr. Adam Smith , 1729 ] HIS RAPID READING AND COMPOSITION 49 than whom.
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