Excerpts from the Book 'James Boswell':

... head holding 'an important charge in the Republick, and is as worthy a man as lives, and has honoured me with his correspondence these twenty years.' ...
... having also commenced attendance at the Roman Catholic Chapel he had now resolved to become a priest, though curiously enough he began this career by ...
... with so comic a face That our sides are just ready to split. Boswell is modest enough, Himself not quite Phoebus he thinks, He never does flourish ...
... the dull life of the burgomasters was little suited to Boswell who ridicules their portly figures and their clothes which they wore as if they had been ...
... he was within one day's sail of Corsica. Pascal Paoli was the Garibaldi of his day. When his father in 1738 had been driven from the island by ...
... his reasoning beyond his depth on such subjects as it is not given to man to know. These hesitances the other wisely pushed aside with the soldierly ...
... early experience of much higher literary pursuits, is peculiarly jealous of any flirtation with the muses on the part of those who have ranged themselves ...
... and saw with veracity. Of Mr B.'s book I have not the least suspicion, because I am sure he could invent nothing of the kind. The title of this part ...
... raised in Scotland a subscription of ?700 for ordnance furnished by the Carron Iron Work Company, and in 1769 there had issued from the press a little ...
... for the extension of the Boswell acres. This may have been the cause of the paternal anger and the separate marriages on the same day. The wives of ...
... up the High Street to Boswell's house in James's Court, to which he had removed from the Canongate. The first impression of the Scottish capital was not ...
... clan appear to such disadvantage. The gentleman has talents, nay, some learning but he is totally unfit for his situation. Sir, the Highland chiefs ...
... to look the duchess in the face, with a glass in my hand, I with a respectful air addressed her,-My Lady Duchess, I have the honour to drink your ...
... the Second Edition shewed Sir Alexander Macdonald seizing the author by the throat, and pointing with his stick to the open book, where two leaves ...
... see appear as a pendant to the Journey. 'Between ourselves,' he tells Temple, 'he is not apt to encourage one to share reputation with him.' Yet he ...
... he exhorts his friends and countrymen, in the words of his departed Goldsmith, who gave him many Attic nights and that jewel of the finest water, ...
... fly to Mr Hastings and expand my soul in the purest satisfaction.' On May 19th 1795, at two in the morning, after an illness of five weeks, he died. ...
... 'which you know is not small, and being not of the gloomy but the grand species is an enjoyment.' When his uncle John died, we learn he was 'a good ...
... what it was to have a wife, and (in a solemn, tender, faltering tone) I have known what it was to lose a wife. It had almost broke my heart.. EDWARDS: ...
... of Ana, affixed to some celebrated name. To it we owe the Table-Talk of Selden, the Conversation between Ben Jonson and Drummond of Hawthornden, Spence's ...