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... moralist , critic , lexicographer , and a character whose talk and opinions illuminate the best - known biography in the language , the Life by James Boswell , which first appeared in 1791 . It has been Mr. Roberts's purpose to show ...
... moralist , critic , lexicographer , and a character whose talk and opinions illuminate the best - known biography in the language , the Life by James Boswell , which first appeared in 1791 . It has been Mr. Roberts's purpose to show ...
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... moralist must not aim at originality in his precepts ; and readers , as a whole , put The Rambler aside and go back to their Boswell . But they do not always reflect upon Boswell's own attitude . In his early reading he had nowhere ...
... moralist must not aim at originality in his precepts ; and readers , as a whole , put The Rambler aside and go back to their Boswell . But they do not always reflect upon Boswell's own attitude . In his early reading he had nowhere ...
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... moralist were constantly striving for the mastery within him . Thus , the one great fault that he found in the Merry Wives was the frequency of profane expressions : there are laws of higher authority than those of criticism ' ; at the ...
... moralist were constantly striving for the mastery within him . Thus , the one great fault that he found in the Merry Wives was the frequency of profane expressions : there are laws of higher authority than those of criticism ' ; at the ...
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