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I have also been extremely careful as to the exactness of my quotations ; holding that there is a respect due to the publick , which should oblige every author to attend to this , and never to presume to introduce them with ...
I have also been extremely careful as to the exactness of my quotations ; holding that there is a respect due to the publick , which should oblige every author to attend to this , and never to presume to introduce them with ...
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Amidst a thousand entertaining and instructive episodes , the hero is never long out of sight ; for they are all in some degree connected with him ; and he , in the whole course of the history , is exhibited by the author for the best ...
Amidst a thousand entertaining and instructive episodes , the hero is never long out of sight ; for they are all in some degree connected with him ; and he , in the whole course of the history , is exhibited by the author for the best ...
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would have abstained from many a trivial detail , and would never have been quoted as furnishing an example to lord Bacon's maxim , “ that it is " not given unto man to love and to be wise . ” But had he loved less , he would not have ...
would have abstained from many a trivial detail , and would never have been quoted as furnishing an example to lord Bacon's maxim , “ that it is " not given unto man to love and to be wise . ” But had he loved less , he would not have ...
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... we cannot recognize the justice of those who impute this very virtue to our author as a fault : for Boswell , who was so heedless of any thing like the suppression of the true , can never be suspected of a suggestion of the false .
... we cannot recognize the justice of those who impute this very virtue to our author as a fault : for Boswell , who was so heedless of any thing like the suppression of the true , can never be suspected of a suggestion of the false .
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But although he at different times , in a desultory manner , committed to writing many particulars of the progress of his mind and fortunes , he never had persevering diligence enough to form them into a regular composition .
But although he at different times , in a desultory manner , committed to writing many particulars of the progress of his mind and fortunes , he never had persevering diligence enough to form them into a regular composition .
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| Title | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Oxford English classics Volume 1 of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, James Boswell |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Publisher | Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 5 Jun 2018 |
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