In 1994, Yale University Church historian John Boswell argued that adelphopoiesis, a rite bonding two men, was akin to a religiously sanctioned same-sex union.

James Boswell saw Hume a few weeks before his death ( which was from some form of abdominal cancer ).

He enjoyed intelligent conversation and cultivated a large number of intellectual associates, among them John Home, David Hume and James Boswell .. Lord Monboddo was also a frequent debater of Kames, although these two usually had a fiercely competitive and adversarial relationship.

Slight, he was about 5 ' 6 " with dark brown curls, a florid complexion and features which James Boswell thought were " rather too largely and strongly limned.

The plan was opposed by key Queensland Senators Ron Boswell and Barnaby Joyce, and was scuttled in 2006.

The law may also have been used to prosecute adult male citizens who willingly took a pathic role in same-sex acts, but prosecutions are rarely recorded and the provisions of the law are vague ; as John Boswell has noted, " if there was a law against homosexual relations, no one in Cicero's day knew anything about it.

Timeslip was devised by ATV script editor Ruth Boswell, who developed the format and the outline of the first story with her husband James.

Boswell was determined to come up with a show that was rooted more firmly in everyday life than Doctor Who, which at the time she felt had become progressively more outlandish.

Although Boswell originally conceived Timeslip as a single-story six-part serial, the concept was soon expanded into a much longer series of twenty-six episodes.

A son of John Murdoch, a former Hanoverian artillery gunner and a Millwright and tenant of Bello Mill on the estate of James Boswell in Auchinleck, he was educated until the age of ten at the Old Cumnock Kirk School before attending Auchinleck school under William Halbert, author of a highly regarded arithmetic textbook.

Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, 8th Laird of Auchinleck ( 1706 – 1782 ) was a judge of the supreme courts of Scotland.

He was the father of the author and biographer James Boswell, and grandfather of songwriter Sir Alexander Boswell.

Among his own compositions was " Shout, Sister, Shout " ( 1929 ), which was recorded by him, and also covered by the Boswell Sisters, in 1931.

It was not until 1943 that Lillian de la Torre, an American mystery writer, did something similar with Dr Johnson and Boswell, casting the two famous literary figures into roles similar to Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.

* The Talladega Municipal Airport was renamed Boswell field in honor of Eastaboga resident Lewis Archer Boswell.

The J. G. Boswell Company was established in Corcoran in 1921 and remains a major employer in the city.

The town of Boswell was first laid out by a man named Charles Moore, but Moore sold the land it occupied to Tippecanoe County-native Elizabeth H. Scott who, with her husband Charles, replatted it in its present form on July 18, 1872.

The town was named for Parnaham Boswell and was platted with streets bearing the names of the founders, Charles and Elizabeth, and their five children, Grace, Emma, Clinton, Harold and Jennie.

He is known for frequently arguing with his son, James Boswell, upon matters such as Boswell's career choice, his publishing methods and routes of travel, his friends and even his choice of wife.

, although the son of Presbyterians, "... owned he had never read the New Testament with attention ... had been at no pains to enquire into the truth of religion, and had continually turned his mind the other way " ( Boswell, p. 409 ).

Boswell was born in Harrison County, Missouri, the son of Margaret and Melvin Boswell.

The son of a farmer, Tim Boswell was educated at Marlborough College and New College, Oxford, where he obtained a degree in Classics and a diploma in agricultural economics.

Boswell, son of J. G.

Samuel Johnson, according to his extraordinary biographer, James Boswell, expressed himself pointedly about the nobleman, in the following manner, ‘“ This man ( said he ) I thought had been a Lord among wits ; but I find he is only a wit among Lords !” And when his Letters to his natural son were published, he observed, that “ they teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing-master .”’ As a courtier he was utterly worsted by Robert Walpole, whose manners were anything but refined, and even by Newcastle.

It later passed on to his son, James Boswell, the biographer of Samuel Johnson.

Boswell and his wife now have a son named Kingston.

Until recently she lived with composer Simon Boswell, and with him has a son, Jimi, born in 2004.

By his wife, Christina Boswell, he had one son and two daughters ; the elder of these, Elizabeth, who married John Colville, de jure 3rd Baron Colville of Culross, has been identified with the authoress of a poem published in 1603, entitled Ane Godlie Dreame.

Emily quickly settles into her billet, posing as a relative of widowed shopkeeper Marie Ferrier ( Gillian Raine ), whose son Luc ( Anstee ) has just gone off to join the Maquis, and her father, Leon ( John Boswell ).

John has summoned Mr. Boswell, Stanley ’ s dad, to account for his son ’ s continuous absence to class for five days.

Also famous as a prose stylist, Hume pioneered the essay as a literary genre and engaged with contemporary intellectual luminaries such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith ( who acknowledged Hume's influence on his economics and political philosophy ), James Boswell, Joseph Butler, and Thomas Reid.

Writers such as James Boswell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Kenneth Grahame, Muriel Spark and Sir Walter Scott all lived and worked in Edinburgh.

A central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, a founder member of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, and active in the Select Society, his protégés included James Boswell, David Hume and Adam Smith.

In 1791 James Boswell dedicated his Life of Samuel Johnson to Reynolds.

* James Boswell, Life of Johnson ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008 ).

* 1740 – James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson ( d. 1795 )

* A Vision of Britain Through Time James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, discussion in entries for 22 and 23 September 1773.

* James Boswell ( 1740 – 1795 ) Scottish.

* James Boswell ( author, lawyer )

* James Boswell, Scottish biographer

* October 29 – James Boswell, Scottish author ( d. 1795 )

The diarist James Boswell took rooms in Downing Street during his stay in London of 1762-3 at a rent of £ 22 per annum.

Both Watt and Murdoch were probably aware of each other because of their connections with James Boswell, who had made several visits to Watt's workshop at Soho.

* James Boswell ( 1740 – 1795 ) lawyer, author of Life of Johnson

* The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell.