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LL.D. BY JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . Quo fit ut OMNIS Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella VITA SENIS HORAT . VOLUME THE FIRST . DOMI- MINA NVS TIO ILLVIMEA OXFORD , PUBLISHED BY TALBOYS AND WHEELER ; AND WILLIAM PICKERING , LONDON .
LL.D. BY JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . Quo fit ut OMNIS Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella VITA SENIS HORAT . VOLUME THE FIRST . DOMI- MINA NVS TIO ILLVIMEA OXFORD , PUBLISHED BY TALBOYS AND WHEELER ; AND WILLIAM PICKERING , LONDON .
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... often mischievous in men of eminence to give way to merriment . The idle and illiterate will often shelter themselves under what they say in those moments . " -- Life of BLACKMORE . London , April 20 , 1791 . a See Mr. DEDICATION . vii.
... often mischievous in men of eminence to give way to merriment . The idle and illiterate will often shelter themselves under what they say in those moments . " -- Life of BLACKMORE . London , April 20 , 1791 . a See Mr. DEDICATION . vii.
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... though malignity may sometimes be disappointed of its gratifieations . I am , My dear sir , Your much obliged friend , And faithful humble servant , JAMES BOSWELL . London , April 20 , 1791 . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION . > .
... though malignity may sometimes be disappointed of its gratifieations . I am , My dear sir , Your much obliged friend , And faithful humble servant , JAMES BOSWELL . London , April 20 , 1791 . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION . > .
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Let me only observe , as a specimen of my trouble , that I have sometimes been obliged to run half over London , in order to fix a date correctly ; which , when I 2 had accomplished , I well knew would obtain me no.
Let me only observe , as a specimen of my trouble , that I have sometimes been obliged to run half over London , in order to fix a date correctly ; which , when I 2 had accomplished , I well knew would obtain me no.
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ADVERTISEMENT ! TO THE SECOND EDITION . a 1 That. London , April 20 , 1791 . a See Mr. Malone's preface to bis edition of Shakspeare . FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE . Life of Boerhaave ; acknowl ADVERTISEMENT . xi.
ADVERTISEMENT ! TO THE SECOND EDITION . a 1 That. London , April 20 , 1791 . a See Mr. Malone's preface to bis edition of Shakspeare . FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE . Life of Boerhaave ; acknowl ADVERTISEMENT . xi.
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