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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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... conversations with some old ser- vants who remembered Johnson , in the anxious desire of gleaning something illustrative of his peculiarities . The result of our diligence must be judged of by a candid publick . In pursuance of the same ...
... conversations with some old ser- vants who remembered Johnson , in the anxious desire of gleaning something illustrative of his peculiarities . The result of our diligence must be judged of by a candid publick . In pursuance of the same ...
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James Boswell. in recollecting , and was very assiduous in recording , his conversation , of which the extraordinary vigour and viva- city constituted one of the first features of his character ; and as I have spared no pains in ...
James Boswell. in recollecting , and was very assiduous in recording , his conversation , of which the extraordinary vigour and viva- city constituted one of the first features of his character ; and as I have spared no pains in ...
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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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