THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT-BRITAIN, FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY, DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED.
BY JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ.

Quò fit ut OMNIS Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella VITA SENIS.—

HORAT.
THE THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND AUGMENTED, IN FOUR VOLUMES.
LONDON: PRINTED BY H. BALDWIN AND SON, FOR CHARLES DILLY, IN THE POULTRY.

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TO

THE REVEREND BENJAMIN JOWETT, M.A.,