Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, Količina 1Bigelow, Brown & Company, Incorporated, 1799 |
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Stran xv
... Preface . XV great man . The labour that I gave to these works was , as regards my main purpose , by no means wholly thrown away . I was trained by it in the duties of an editor , and by study- ing the character of two such men , who ...
... Preface . XV great man . The labour that I gave to these works was , as regards my main purpose , by no means wholly thrown away . I was trained by it in the duties of an editor , and by study- ing the character of two such men , who ...
Stran xvi
... Preface . fresh reading has given fresh information , and caused many an addition , and not a few corrections moreover to be made , in passages which I had previously presumed to think already complete . Had it been merely the biography ...
... Preface . fresh reading has given fresh information , and caused many an addition , and not a few corrections moreover to be made , in passages which I had previously presumed to think already complete . Had it been merely the biography ...
Stran xvii
... Preface . xvii moreover , all the minor writings which are attributed to him by Boswell , but which are not for the most part included in his collected works . In some cases I have ventured to set my judgment against Boswell's , and ...
... Preface . xvii moreover , all the minor writings which are attributed to him by Boswell , but which are not for the most part included in his collected works . In some cases I have ventured to set my judgment against Boswell's , and ...
Stran xviii
... Preface . which ever side the right might be , even if at first his pistol missed fire to knock him down with the butt - end of it ' . I have attempted therefore not to criticise but to illustrate Johnson's statements . I have compared ...
... Preface . which ever side the right might be , even if at first his pistol missed fire to knock him down with the butt - end of it ' . I have attempted therefore not to criticise but to illustrate Johnson's statements . I have compared ...
Stran xix
... Preface . xix Western Islands ' ; Boswell's letters of acceptance of the office of Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the Royal Academy ' ; the proposal for the publication of a Geograph- ical Dictionary issued by Johnson's beloved ...
... Preface . xix Western Islands ' ; Boswell's letters of acceptance of the office of Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the Royal Academy ' ; the proposal for the publication of a Geograph- ical Dictionary issued by Johnson's beloved ...
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