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Pagina xii
... 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 . " It was a strange and fortunate concurrence , that one so prone to ...
... 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 . " It was a strange and fortunate concurrence , that one so prone to ...
Pagina xv
... powers made his company much in request . His warmth of heart towards his friends was very great ; and I have known few men who possessed a stronger sense of piety , or more fervent devotion ( tinctured , no doubt . with some little ...
... powers made his company much in request . His warmth of heart towards his friends was very great ; and I have known few men who possessed a stronger sense of piety , or more fervent devotion ( tinctured , no doubt . with some little ...
Pagina xvi
... powers , and an inexhaustible fund of good - humour in society ; no body could detail the spirit of a conversation in the true style and character of the parties more happily than my friend James Boswell . " - Memoirs , vol . ii . p ...
... powers , and an inexhaustible fund of good - humour in society ; no body could detail the spirit of a conversation in the true style and character of the parties more happily than my friend James Boswell . " - Memoirs , vol . ii . p ...
Pagina xix
... powers upon the general tone of thought and feeling of their kind , and invests the very soil where it can be shown they ever set foot , with a living and sacred charm of interest , years and ages after the loftiest of the ...
... powers upon the general tone of thought and feeling of their kind , and invests the very soil where it can be shown they ever set foot , with a living and sacred charm of interest , years and ages after the loftiest of the ...
Pagina 13
... this , he would run over all London for the sake of verifying any single word which might be disputed . - G . H. BEAUMONT . " " ] admire his wonderful powers of mind , when we con- ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION . 13.
... this , he would run over all London for the sake of verifying any single word which might be disputed . - G . H. BEAUMONT . " " ] admire his wonderful powers of mind , when we con- ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION . 13.
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