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... whole is completed . و The " Life of Johnson " by Bosweli - the most interesting and instructive specimen of biography that has ever been given to the world - must , of course , occupy the chief space and attention ; and that author's ...
... whole is completed . و The " Life of Johnson " by Bosweli - the most interesting and instructive specimen of biography that has ever been given to the world - must , of course , occupy the chief space and attention ; and that author's ...
Pagina xviii
... whole history of the human intellect so singular a pheno- menon as this book . Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography — Boswell has beaten them all . This book resembles nothing so much as the conversation of ...
... whole history of the human intellect so singular a pheno- menon as this book . Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography — Boswell has beaten them all . This book resembles nothing so much as the conversation of ...
Pagina xix
... whole life and conversation of one of that rare order of beings , the rarest , the most influential of all , whose mere genius entitles and enables them to act as great independent con- trolling powers upon the general tone of thought ...
... whole life and conversation of one of that rare order of beings , the rarest , the most influential of all , whose mere genius entitles and enables them to act as great independent con- trolling powers upon the general tone of thought ...
Pagina xx
... whole - length portrait of Johnson , from an original painting in the possession of Mr. Arch- deacon Cambridge , the son of the Doctor's friend , Richard Owen Cambridge , Esq . , of Twickenham ; and " considered , " says the proprietor ...
... whole - length portrait of Johnson , from an original painting in the possession of Mr. Arch- deacon Cambridge , the son of the Doctor's friend , Richard Owen Cambridge , Esq . , of Twickenham ; and " considered , " says the proprietor ...
Pagina 5
... whole , you perceived all the shades which mingled in the grand composition ; all the little peculiarities and slight blemishes which marked the literary Colossus . Your very warm commend- ation of the specimen which I gave in my of a ...
... whole , you perceived all the shades which mingled in the grand composition ; all the little peculiarities and slight blemishes which marked the literary Colossus . Your very warm commend- ation of the specimen which I gave in my of a ...
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