The Life of James Boswell (301 words, 2 pages)
Best remembered today as friend and biographer of Dr Samuel Johnson, Boswell was an extraordinary figure ofeighteenth-century society. Vain yet good-natured, foolish yet charming, he was also conceited and a hypochondriac with adrinking problem. He forced himself upon eminent people, and bragged about the great men he knew. David Hume ...
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