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Often appears with: the passions and the emotions · sir joshua reynolds · rhetoric and persuasion · puns and wit · george staunton · counsel and advisers to rulers
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Boswell continues collecting Johnson’s sayings: discussions of Walpole, Reynolds, puns, Burke’s defense of Johnson, Johnson’s dislike of gesturing, his apologies, and his view that pleasures reveal true character.
'Though fraught with all learning kept straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote.' It may be worth remarking, among the minutiae of my collection, that Johnson was once drawn to serve in the militia, the Trained Bands of the City of London, and that Mr. Rackstrow, of the Museum in Fleet-street, was his Colonel. It may be believed he did not serve in person; but the idea, with all its circu…