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Never mind the taunt of Boswellism: the devotion may easily be greater than the wretched pride which is guarding its own skirts.

From Representative Men by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Yet do not imagine that I will hurt you in this unseen domain of yours by any Boswellism.

From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Carlyle, Thomas

In every respect he was original and peculiar, and but for a rooted aversion to anything like Boswellism I might here depict a character such as one seldom meets with in these days.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 by Various