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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'[letter from Boswell, to Johnson] It gives me much pleasure to hear that a republication of "Isaac Walton's Lives" is intended. You have been in a mistake in thinking th...James Boswell Izaak WaltonLives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richa...Print: Book
1700-1799'[on Good Friday] We went to church both in the morning and evening. In the interval between the two services we did not dine; but he read in the Greek New Testament, and...James Boswell [unknown][books belonging to Johnson]Print: Book
1700-1799'[referring to a dispute over whether Johnson wrote certain papers in "The Adventurer"] Mrs Williams told me that, "as he had [italics] given [end italics] those Essays t...James Boswell James Boswell[account given to him by Mrs Williams]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799I have read, conversed, and thought much upon the subject, and would recommend to all who are capable of conviction, an excellent Tract by my learned and ingenious friend...James Boswell John RanbyDoubts on the Abolition of the Slave TradePrint: Pamphlet
1700-1799Unfavourable as I am constrained to say my opinion of this pamphlet [Johnson's 'Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress'] w...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonTaxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions ...Print: Pamphlet, proof leaves of a pamphlet with handwritten corrections
1700-1799Unfavourable as I am constrained to say my opinion of this pamphlet [Johnson's 'Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress'] w...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonTaxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions ...Print: Pamphlet


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