Tuesday, August 06, 2019
A Kind of Erudition
Frederick A. Pottle, James Boswell: The Earlier Years, 1740-1769 (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966), p. 358 (on Boswell's Account of Corsica):
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The result, as Georges Deyverdun and Edward Gibbon, the most acid of Boswell's reviewers, remarked, was "that kind of erudition which costs little and is worth less."
