Johnson and Boswell: The Story of Their LivesHarper, 1958 - 390 Seiten |
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... kind of person whom most of his friends would have thought offensive . Always interested in medicine , Johnson had probably run across Robert Levett in a tavern round about 1746 , got into conversation with him , and found his advice ...
... kind of person whom most of his friends would have thought offensive . Always interested in medicine , Johnson had probably run across Robert Levett in a tavern round about 1746 , got into conversation with him , and found his advice ...
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... kind , and he was irresistibly attracted to a country of which Rousseau had written " I have a presentiment that one day that little island will astonish Europe . " Boswell might even have dreamt that he would write the saga whereby ...
... kind , and he was irresistibly attracted to a country of which Rousseau had written " I have a presentiment that one day that little island will astonish Europe . " Boswell might even have dreamt that he would write the saga whereby ...
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... kind of history on which he set a high value being the history of manners , " and therefore I esteem biography , as giving us what comes near to ourselves , what we can turn to use . " But he also wanted to show wherein his subjects had ...
... kind of history on which he set a high value being the history of manners , " and therefore I esteem biography , as giving us what comes near to ourselves , what we can turn to use . " But he also wanted to show wherein his subjects had ...
Inhalt
The Depression of Poverty I | 1 |
SelfEducation ΙΟ | 10 |
Morbidity and Marriage | 16 |
Urheberrecht | |
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