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Boswell, James
An eighteenth-century Scottish author, best known for his Life of Samuel Johnson.
Example Sentences
Boswell, James, xx, lx, 318, 322, 325, 335 Boswell, James, the younger, 316.
Boswell, James, the biographer of Johnson, born at Edinburgh, showed early a penchant for writing and an admiration for literary men; fell in with Johnson on a visit to London in 1763, and conceived for him the most devoted regard; made a tour with him to the Hebrides in 1773, the "Journal" of which he afterwards published; settled in London, and was called to the English bar; succeeded, in 1782, to his father's estate, Auchinleck, in Ayrshire, with an income of £1600 a year.
BOSWELL, James, account of himself, i.
BOSWELL, James, the author's second son, birth, iii.
BOSWELL, James, Bishop Percy's Communications, lvii; Johnson in his last illness, and to publish 'praises' of him, lxiii; Lurgan Clanbrassil, li; projected works, lxvii; Remarks on the profession of a player, lxi; visit to Rousseau and Voltaire, xlvi.
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