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... 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 Johnson in his grandeur independently of Boswell . This he is ...
... 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 Johnson in his grandeur independently of Boswell . This he is ...
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... Talking and writing were for him quite separate arts : As many please [ he wrote ] by extemporary talk , though utterly unacquainted with the more accurate method and more laboured beauties which composition requires ; so it is very ...
... Talking and writing were for him quite separate arts : As many please [ he wrote ] by extemporary talk , though utterly unacquainted with the more accurate method and more laboured beauties which composition requires ; so it is very ...
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... talk about Liberty in the abstract infuriated him , especially when it championed a man of the character of Wilkes . As to the American colonists , Johnson regarded them simply as English subjects who had voluntarily crossed the ocean ...
... talk about Liberty in the abstract infuriated him , especially when it championed a man of the character of Wilkes . As to the American colonists , Johnson regarded them simply as English subjects who had voluntarily crossed the ocean ...
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