Sunday, January 2, 2011

Daily Dose

From Boswell's Life of Johnson, in Six Volumes, Volume I, edited by Augustine Birrell

ENDEAVOURED

"I have thus endeavoured to sum up the evidence upon the case as fairly as I can; and the result seems to be that the world must vibrate in a state of uncertainty as to what was the truth."

Boswell's conclusion on the parentage of Richard Savage

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