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This entry was posted in examples of good writing and tagged “This pamphlet is published to prove what nobody will deny.”, Boswell did a great service in preserving so much of Johnson’s conversation. He also wrote one of the great if not the greatest biographies of all time. Yet his Johnson is often a caricature of hims, Charles Parkin, Donald Greene, I can think of no other book that … has deterred so many intelligent people from making a firsthand acquaintance with the work of a very great writer and thinker., I know many people who have read--or dipped into-- Bowell’s Life but have not read a word of Johnson., James Boswell Life of Johnson, Johnson was witty and quotable; he had a penetrating intellect. But one gets to know him a lot better from his various and voluminous output as a writer., My high school English teacher was once asked by a student how long should a paper be? As long as required to cover the subject he replied. No more and no less., Robert Tighe, Robert W. Tighe, Roger Smith, Roger W. Smith, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Johnson has been known mostly for his conversation -- not his writings., Stephen Miller, This pamphlet is published to prove what nobody will deny that we shall be less happy if we were conquered by the French. on March 29, 2020 by Roger W. Smith.

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