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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

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

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