However this did not make Reynolds happy, as he wrote to Boswell: " If I had known what a shabby miserable place it is, I would not have asked for it ; besides as things have turned out I think a certain person is not worth speaking to, nor speaking of ", presumably meaning the King.

In his later years, he also wrote two highly idiosyncratic and overly positive medical works and told Boswell that he knew more about nerves than any doctor in Europe.

Boswell, a strong proponent of gun rights in a state that supports the issue, wrote an op-ed in the local Council Bluffs newspaper criticizing Mitt Romney for flip-flopping on the issue of gun rights, an issue supported by local Iowans.

In 1969, the Hursleys created and wrote the NBC Daytime soap opera Bright Promise that starred Dana Andrews as college president Tom Boswell.

In 1969, the Hursleys created and wrote the NBC Daytime soap opera Bright Promise that starred Dana Andrews as college president Tom Boswell.

He began this project and, on 3 May 1777, he wrote to James Boswell that he was busy preparing a " little Lives " and " little Prefaces, to a little edition of the English Poets ".

The Dictionary of National Biography says that Lloyd joined Charles Churchill in a " reckless career of dissipation ", and Vulliamy, in his biography of James Boswell, wrote that " Lloyd died when he was thirty-one, ruined by his friendship with Churchill ".

Boswell wrote a good Book because he had a heart and an eye to discern Wisdom, and an utterance to render it forth ; because of his free insight, his lively talent, above all, of his Love and childlike Open-mindedness.

An admission charge was introduced from the beginning and later James Boswell wrote:

Johnson later moves on to greater things and James Boswell writes of Johnson's life: " After nine years of work, Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1755 ; it had a far-reaching effect on Modern English and has been described as " one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship.

After impressing during pre-season, Boswell was signed by D. C. United as a discovery player and earned a starting spot in the club's defense after Bryan Namoff had to miss the beginning of the season due to injury.

After the 2008 season, Boswell went to Europe in search of a new club and almost signed with Turkish club Antalyaspor, but eventually signed a four year extension with the Dynamo instead.

There is an inscription above a doorway in Lochbuie House farm square that states: " After leaving Moy Castle the Lochbuie family resided in this house from 1752 to 1789 and it was in this house that Dr. Johnson and Mr. Boswell were entertained in 1773 by John MacLaine XVII chief of Lochbuie.

Macaulay's view that the book was great because of the baseness of Boswell was brushed aside by Carlyle (" Falser hypothesis, we may venture to say, never rose in human soul "):

James Boswell, in his Life of Johnson, recalled meeting " a young officer in the regimentals of the Scots royal, who talked with a vivacity, fluency and precision so uncommon, that he attracted particular attention.

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.

Very early on, Ruth Boswell was brought in as associate producer and script editor as she had experience of children's fantasy drama ( Timeslip and Tightrope ) while TV dramatist Brian Finch was hired to co-write the scripts in view of the fact that Price had little experience of writing drama.

However, as this was inconvenient for election administration purposes, the Boundary Commission put Milton with fellow ward villages in South Northants Council's " Harpole and Grange " ward into the Daventry Constituency previously held by Mr Tim Boswell who stood down at 2010 General Election.

On 17 September 2012 at a senate debate, Boswell spoke out against same sex marriage in Australia stating: " Two mothers or two fathers can ’ t raise a child properly.

" Reid Fleming, World ’ s Toughest Milkman " is a comicbook character created by David Boswell which first appeared in 1980.

Boswell goes on to write that Bodkin ’ s “ analyses and presentation are excellent ; but the explanations, where any are attempted, seem inadequate to account for some very significant facts which the analyses have brought out ” ( Boswell 1936: 553 ).

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

* Of the Nature and Use of Lots ( 1619 ), a curious treatise which led to his being accused of favouring games of chance, but which Boswell called " a learned book of the age ".

Ruth Boswell wanted Lynn Frederick ( later the last wife of Peter Sellers ) for Carol, the female lead, but following a meeting with her, Paul Bernard felt she was a bit too upper class and precious for what he had in mind as he saw the character as being similar to Doctor Who's Jo Grant.

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.

John Boswell, in his Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, calls Gaveston Edward's lover, and writes that there is little doubt " that wife and the barons of England were violently hostile to Edward's sexual proclivities, although he more than fulfilled his royal duties by fathering four children with Isabella.

Each published several books on gay history ; Boswell held three biennial conferences on the subject at the university, and Duberman sought to establish a center for lesbian and gay studies there in 1985.

" Gray, writing to Horace Walpole ( August, 1757 ), said that the author " seemed to have retrieved the true language of the stage, which has been lost for these hundred years ," but Samuel Johnson held aloof from the general enthusiasm, and averred that there were not ten good lines in the whole play ( Boswell, Life, ed.

He was admitted to the Inner Temple the same year as James Boswell — a coincidence Martin thinks “ literary historians cannot fail to wonder at ”— but there is nothing to indicate that they ever crossed paths there.

Before Boswell could publish his biography of Johnson, there were many other friends of Johnson's who published or were in the middle of publishing their own biographies or collections or anecdotes on Johnson: John Hawkins, Thrale, Frances Burney, Anna Seward, Elizabeth Montagu, Hannah More, and Horace Walpole among many.

He shared Macaulay's unfavourable verdict on Croker's efforts: " there is simply no edition of Boswell to which this last would seem preferable ", but argued that to judge Boswell as Macaulay had was to overlook the most important point ; that Boswell had had the great good sense to admire and attach himself to Dr Johnson ; an attachment which had little to offer materially.

" James Boswell belonged, in his corruptible part, to the lowest classes of mankind ; a foolish, inflated creature, swimming in an element of self-conceit: but in his corruptible there dwelt an incorruptible, all the more impressive and indubitable for the strange lodging it had taken ..."

Gatan Benoit suggested that sega came from Madagascar and Boswell notes there may be a link between sega and famadihana, a Merina death ritual.

In Archetypal Patterns in Poetry, Bodkin tried, as Boswell ( 1936: 553 ) quotes, “ to bring psychological analysis and reflection to bear upon the imaginative experience communicated by great poetry, and to examine those forms or patterns in which the universal forces of our nature there find objectification .” Among the forms or archetypal patterns Bodkin presented, according to Boswell, may be included: the “ Oedipus complex ,” the “ rebirth archetype ,” the “ archetype of Heaven and Hell ,” and “ images of the Devil, the Hero, and God ” ( Boswell 1936: 553 ).

Others out there were by Roy Smeck & His Orchestra ( released by Decca Records as catalog number 649 ) Jan Garber & His Orchestra ( released by Decca Records as catalog number 651B ), singer Connee Boswell ( released by Decca Records as catalogue number 657A ), Lud Gluskin's Orchestra with vocal by a young Buddy Clark ( released by Brunswick Records as catalog number 7590 ), and the BBC Dance Orchestra of Henry Hall.

Inch Kenneth was visited in 1773 by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell during their tour of the Hebrides ; they were entertained there by Sir Allan MacLean, head of the Maclean clan.

* 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.

In the early-to-mid-1930s, Miller also worked as a trombonist and arranger in The Dorsey Brothers, first when they were a Brunswick studio group ( under their own name and providing accompaniment for many of The Boswell Sisters sessions ), and finally when they formed an ill-fated co-led touring and recording orchestra.

When he goes upstairs, a hit squad composed of corrupt policemen, including Jack Axel ( Boswell ) and Max Quentero ( Richmond ), working for the politician, break in and proceed to murder Mason's wife and shoot him.

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.

* Connee Boswell recorded the song for Decca on July 8, 1941 with Victor Young's Orchestra.

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.

Other facilities include Hillcrest Health Center, Boswell Regional Center for adult persons with developmental disabilities, and Millcreek Rehabilitation Center, a private residential center for mental, emotionally and physically handicapped.

Kittrell's Depot was a railroad depot named for George Kittrell and his wife, Elizabeth Boswell Kittrell, who donated the land for a Raleigh and Gaston Railroad station.

Boswell was named for S. C. Boswell, a local merchant.

At the same time, the borough's street names can provide a geography lesson, following the flow of water from Boswell to the seas, with two exceptions made for streets in the central business district.

A prolonged struggle for unionization, which began at Jerome and Windber in northern Somerset County in early April, 1922, extended to Boswell on April 17.

Given the size of Merchant's capital outlay — including construction in Boswell of the world's largest tipple, a central business district and a high school — the company planned big things for Boswell.

The town of Jerome appears to have been built as a satellite town, soon to be linked with Boswell, both underground in coal production and on the surface in social and cultural life ( the right-of-way for a street car line was acquired between Jerome and Boswell, for instance ).

A major problem for Barry came with the appointment on 1 April 1840 of the ventilation expert Dr David Boswell Reid.

However, Boswell died in 1994, and in 1991 Duberman left for the City University of New York, where he founded its Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies.