The Life of Samuel Johnson |
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... Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators , than Boswell is the first of biographers . He has no second . He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them .
... Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators , than Boswell is the first of biographers . He has no second . He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them .
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| Título | The Life of Samuel Johnson |
| Autor | James Boswell |
| Editor | William Wallace |
| Editor | William P. Nimmo, 1873 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 14 Jun. 2006 |
| Largo | 576 páginas |
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