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Pagina xii
... told Sir James Mackintosh , that he thought Johnson showed more powers of mind in company than in his writings , and on another occasion said , that he thought Johnson appeared greater in Mr. Boswell's volumes than even in his own ...
... told Sir James Mackintosh , that he thought Johnson showed more powers of mind in company than in his writings , and on another occasion said , that he thought Johnson appeared greater in Mr. Boswell's volumes than even in his own ...
Pagina xiv
... told , by no means satisfied with the life he led , nor his eldest son with the kind of reputation he attained : neither liked to hear of his connexion even with Paoli or Johnson ; and both would have been better pleased if he had ...
... told , by no means satisfied with the life he led , nor his eldest son with the kind of reputation he attained : neither liked to hear of his connexion even with Paoli or Johnson ; and both would have been better pleased if he had ...
Pagina 11
... told . " Such a sanction to my faculty of giving a just repre- sentation of Dr. Johnson I could not conceal . Nor will I suppress my satisfaction in the consciousness , that by recording so considerable a portion of the wisdom and wit ...
... told . " Such a sanction to my faculty of giving a just repre- sentation of Dr. Johnson I could not conceal . Nor will I suppress my satisfaction in the consciousness , that by recording so considerable a portion of the wisdom and wit ...
Pagina 13
... told me at his table , immediately after the publication of this book , that every word of might be depended upon as if given on oath . Boswell was in the habit of bringing the proof sheets to his house , pre- viously to their being ...
... told me at his table , immediately after the publication of this book , that every word of might be depended upon as if given on oath . Boswell was in the habit of bringing the proof sheets to his house , pre- viously to their being ...
Pagina 32
... told me , that he remembered distinctly having had the first notice of Heaven , " a place to which good people went , " and hell , " a place to which bad people went , " communicated to him by her , when a little child in bed with her ...
... told me , that he remembered distinctly having had the first notice of Heaven , " a place to which good people went , " and hell , " a place to which bad people went , " communicated to him by her , when a little child in bed with her ...
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