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.

Boswell wrote: " After dinner to-day, we talked of the extraordinary fact of Lady Grange ’ s being sent to St Kilda, and confined there for several years, without any means of relief.

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 ".

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

" 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 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.

A 1993 alumnus gift evolved into the faculty committee-administered Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies, which developed a listing of courses relevant to lesbian and gay studies called the " Pink Book " and established a small lending library named for Boswell.

* Cobb, John Boswell, Jr., Whitehead Word Book, Claremont, P & F Press, 2008.

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.

In 2004, a move by Village Roadshow Corporation to acquire more stock was halted by German company Boswell Filmgesellschaft, who argued that Village had misinformed shareholders about their voting rights because holders of ordinary shares who also held preference stock were excluded from voting on the buyback.

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 "):

Following the lead of Yale scholar John Boswell, it has been argued that a number of Early Christians entered into homosexual relationships, and that certain Biblical figures had homosexual relationships, despite Biblical injunctions against sexual relationships between members of the same sex.

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.

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.

) It can be speculated that Hillman had planned to use Boswell as its primary processing facility after the link-up, thus the huge tipple.

In 1772, he told Boswell that he had written Fanny Hill while in Bombay, that he had written it on a dare, to show a friend of his that it was possible to write about prostitution without using any " vulgar " terms.

Although the Shakespeare papers had prominent believers ( including James Boswell ), skeptics had questioned their authenticity from the beginning, and as the premiere of Vortigern approached, the press was filled with arguments over whether the papers were genuine or forgeries.

In 1965 he married for a third time, wedding Catherine Boswell with whom he had three children ; Petra ( b. 1965 ), Klaus and Tom ( b. 1969 ).

, 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 had a non-cancerous tumor removed from his stomach in 2005.

Boswell was chosen to contest the Daventry constituency after the sitting Conservative MP and former Labour Cabinet member Reg Prentice had announced his retirement.

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.

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.

His reputation and the influence of Sir William Boswell, the English resident, with the States-General procured his election in 1644 to the chair of mathematics in Amsterdam, after an earlier attempt immediately after Martin van den Hove left for Leiden had failed.

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.

Boswell, lost the notes in Satyamangalam in Mysore and the notes went into the hands of Tippu Sultan who had them rebound.

In particular, certain individuals that Posner claimed to have interviewed ( James Tague, a witness lightly wounded in the assassination, and J. Thorton Boswell, one of the autopsy pathologists ) said that they had never spoken to Posner, and both autopsy pathologists denied positions that Posner attributed to them.

Posner responded that he had tapes of himself interviewing Tague and Boswell.

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.

Boswell is in the southwest part of the county along U. S. Route 41 ; Oxford is about to the east along State Road 352.

U. S. Route 41 passes along the east side of Boswell ; State Road 352 and the Kankakee, Beaverville and Southern Railroad both run east through town.

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.

# James Boswell – Journal ; Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll. D.

Nine presidents have led the college including William James Johnson ; E. E. Wood ; John Newton Prestridge ; Gorman Jones, acting president ; A. R. Evans, acting president ; Charles William Elsey ; James Lloyd Creech ; J. M. Boswell ; and James H. Taylor.

) ( 1989 ) Register of Sermons Preached at Paul's Cross 1534 – 1642 ; revised and expanded by Peter Pauls and Jackson Campbell Boswell.

Tooke's conversational powers rivalled those of Samuel Johnson ; and, if more of Tooke's sayings have not been chronicled for the benefit of posterity, the defect is due to the absence of a James Boswell.

The Opies and Bottigheimer both note that Henry Fielding alluded to Jack in Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ); Dr. Johnson admitted to reading the tale ; Boswell read the tale in his boyhood ; and William Cowper was another who mentioned the tale.

He has been married to Dody Boswell since 1956 ; they have three children.

# James Boswell – Journal ; The Life of Samuel Johnson

Two were competing for open seats ( Bobby Bright, successful in the 2nd district of Alabama ; and David Boswell, unsuccessful in the 2nd district of Kentucky ).

On their 1983 / 84 touring dates, bassist Russ Boswell stepped in for Webster ; he would then leave the band to join Corey Hart's backing band.

His associates included James Boswell, who was the art editor ; they had met around 1929.