Quote of the day
That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
James Boswell
Born: October 29, 1740
Died: May 19, 1795 (aged 54)
Bio: James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck, was a Scottish biographer and diarist, born in Edinburgh.
Known for:
- Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
- London Journal (1763)
- The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)
- An Account of Corsica (1768)
- Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck, 1778-1782
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