{"title":"James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides","authors":"S. Johnson, J. Boswell","doi":"10.1093/owc/9780198798743.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780198798743.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"In every narrative, whether historical or biographical, authenticity is of the utmost consequence. Of this I have ever been so firmly persuaded, that I inscribed a former work to that person who was the best judge of its truth. I need not tell you I mean General Paoli; who, after his great, though unsuccessful, efforts to preserve the liberties of his country, has found an honourable asylum in Britain, where he has now lived many years the object of Royal regard and private respect;* and whom I cannot name without expressing my very grateful sense of the uniform kindness which he has been pleased to shew me.","PeriodicalId":391734,"journal":{"name":"A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133395525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.","authors":"S. Johnson, J. Boswell","doi":"10.1093/owc/9780198798743.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780198798743.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"I had desired to visit the Hebrides, or Western Islands of Scotland, so long, that I scarcely remember how the wish was originally excited;* and was in the Autumn of the year 1773 induced to undertake the journey, by finding in Mr. Boswell a companion, whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the inconveniencies of travel, in countries less hospitable than we have passed.*","PeriodicalId":391734,"journal":{"name":"A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114267425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}