 | England - 1831 - 1044 pages
...but welcomed. I conversed with him upon numberless subjects of learning, politics, and common life. / traversed the whole compass of his understanding ;...sixty or seventy books for the purpose of writing in such a manner as would do no discredit to myself. I intended to spread my thoughts over two volumes... | |
 | Joseph Cradock - France - 1828 - 430 pages
...failed to call upon Johnson. I was not only admitted, but welcomed. I conversed with him upon numberless subjects of learning, politics, and common life; 1...writing it in such a manner as would do no discredit to myself. I intended to spread my thoughts over two volumes quarto, and if I had filled three pages,... | |
 | Joseph Cradock - France - 1828 - 440 pages
...failed to call upon Johnson. I was not only admitted, but welcomed. I conversed with him upon numberless subjects of learning, politics, and common life; 1...writing it in such a manner as would do no discredit to myself. I intended to spread my thoughts over two volumes quarto, and if I had filled three pages,... | |
 | Joseph Cradock - France - 1828 - 438 pages
...welcomed. I conversed with him upon numberless subjects of learning, politics, and common life ; I traversed the whole compass of his understanding;...writing it in such a manner as would do no discredit to myself. I intended to spread my thoughts over two volumes quarto, and if I had filled three pages,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1828 - 740 pages
...and common life ; I traversed the whole compass of his understanding ; and, by the acknowledgement of Burke and Reynolds, I distinctly understood the...writing it in such a manner as would do no discredit to myself. I intended to spread my thoughts over two volumes quarto, and if I had 611ed three pages the... | |
 | English essays - 1828 - 718 pages
...and common life ; I traversed the whole compass of his understanding ; and, by the acknowledgement of Burke and Reynolds, I distinctly understood the...transcendental properties of his mighty and virtuous wind. I intended to write his life ; I laid by sixty or seventy books for the purpose of writing it... | |
 | Scotland - 1831 - 1070 pages
...but welcomed. I conversed with him upon numberless subjects of learning, politics, and common life. / traversed the whole compass of his •understanding...write his life. I laid by sixty or seventy books for thy purpose of writing in such a manner as would do no discredit to myself. I intended to spread my... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 460 pages
...but welcomed. I conversed with him upon numberless subjects of learning, politics, and common life. I traversed the whole compass of his understanding;...Reynolds, I distinctly understood the peculiar and transcendent properties of his mighty and virtuous mind. I intended to write his life ; I laid hy sixty... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 402 pages
...but welcomed. I conversed with him upon numberless subjects of learning, politics, and common life. I traversed the whole compass of his understanding ;...Reynolds, I distinctly understood the peculiar and transcendent properties of his mighty and virtuous mind. I intended to write his life ; I laid by sixty... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pages
...selected from the Life and Works of Parr, in eight vols. 8vo. I8'J8; edited by Dr. John Johnstonc.] and, by the acknowledgment of Burke and Reynolds, I distinctly understood the peculiar and transcendent properties of his mighty and virtuous mind. I intended to write his life ; I laid by sixty... | |
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For many years I spent a month's holidays in London, and never failed to call upon Johnson. I was not only admitted, but welcomed. I conversed with him upon numberless subjects of learning, politics, and common life. I traversed the whole compass... 
