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Johnsoniana: a collection of miscellaneous anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Samuel Johnson
James Boswell · 1845 · Scanned text
183,297 words · about 12 h 50 min to read
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Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1845, author long deceased · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/12036996); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)
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- James Boswell
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1845
- Length
- 183,297 words · about 12 h 50 min
- Sections
- 34 reader sections
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- Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
- Rights
- Public domain
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Contents (34)
- Front matter about 2 min
- Part I about 2 h 54 min
- Part II. ANECDOTES AND SAYINGS OF JOHNSON, SELECTED FROM HAWKINS, (i) about 53 min
- Part III about 14 min
- Part IV about 20 min
- Part V about 12 min
- Part VI about 35 min
- Part VII about 11 min
- Part VIII about 13 min
- Part IX about 4 min
- Part X about 1 min
- Part XI about 4 min
- Part XII about 4 min
- Part XIII about 2 min
- Part XIV about 3 min
- Part XV about 19 min
- Part XVI about 44 min
- Part XVII about 5 min
- Part XVIII about 13 min
- Part XIX about 16 min
- Part XX about 7 min
- Part XXI about 10 min
- Part XXII about 18 min
- Part XXIII. ANECDOTES AND REMARKS about 16 min
- Part XXIV. ANECDOTES AND REMARKS, BY JOSEPH BARETTI. (i) about 7 min
- Part XXV. ANECDOTES AND REMARKS, BY BISHOP PERCY, (i) about 10 min
- Part XXVI. ANECDOTES AND REMARKS, BY LADY KNIGHT, (i) about 4 min
- Part XXVII about 6 min
- Part XXVIII. ANECDOTES, BY MISS HAWKINS. (0 about 8 min
- Part XXIX. ANECDOTES about 5 min
- Part XXX. ANECDOTES AND REMARKS, BY ARTHUR MURPHY, ESQ. (i) about 13 min
- Part XXXI. CRITICAL REMARKS, BY NATHAN DRAKE, M.D. (i) about 2 h 20 min
- Part XXXIII. JEUX D'ESPRIT ON JOHNSON'S BIO- GRAPHERS about 26 min
- Part XXXIV. BOSWELL about 52 min
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