We know little about Samuel Johnson's inner life when he was in his early twenties. About James Boswell's we know a very great deal, because he was deeply interested in it himself, and because…
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It can be said in particular of wonder that it is useful in making us learn and retain in our memory things we have previously been ignorant of. For we wonder only at what…
In the men’s apartment, on the lower deck of an African ship of 297 tons burden, the space allowed to each slave is six feet in length by sixteen inches in breadth. The boys…