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Boswell, James
- An eighteenth-century Scottish author, best known for his Life of Samuel Johnson .
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Notes
Boswell has become a general term for a biographer: “James Joyce found his Boswell in Richard Ellmann.”
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Example Sentences
Hume had then left his house, and it appears that James Boswell became his tenant.
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James Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson, was distinguished in his private life by his humor and power of repartee.
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Such was the hollow and feeble sophistry of such men as Mr. James Boswell, and so fondly and foolishly did they talk.
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No wonder that man, that each man, and James Boswell like the others, should resemble it!
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Our means of knowledge of James Boswell are derived mainly from himself; he is his own incriminator.
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