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Date: 1785
"I answered I would not; and he applauded my setting such a value on an accession of new images in my mind."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1785
"To apply his great mind to minute particulars, is wrong: it is like taking an immense balance, such as is kept on quays for weighing cargoes of ships, to weigh a guinea. I knew I had neat little scales, which would do better; and that his attention to every thing which falls in his way, and his ...
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
