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...The firm hired finance partner James Boswell from Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy’s former global infrastructure co-head Sara Pickersgill....
...The Democrat strategist James Carville — another New Orleans local — appears at our table, eager to swap gossip about US president Joe Biden....
...Another closely watched case has been brought by leaseholders of Boswell Court and Hitherwood Court in north-west London against their landlord, RMB102, which is ultimately owned by property tycoon James...
...It was visited by Dr Johnson’s biographer James Boswell in the 1760s, and possibly even by Horatio Nelson, who in 1796 sent a British commander to the fort to raise the British flag, furious that French...
...Round on the Links The link was British prime ministers May Melbourne The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell Mrs Brown’s Boys Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight) Cameron Mackintosh (Les Misérables...
...In 1773 perma-grump brainbox Samuel Johnson was finally persuaded to take a lengthy trip north of the border by his younger pal and amanuensis, James Boswell....
...At a coaching inn near Chipping Norton he remarked to his friend and biographer James Boswell: “There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced, as by a good...
...James Boswell, a student of Smith’s in Glasgow, contended that he rarely discussed his ideas in public, for fear of cutting into book sales. But that’s where guest number four comes in....
...And as late as 1761, Dr Johnson and James Boswell could still ruminate wistfully about the dynasty “driven from the throne,” while deriding “the shabby family” that they got instead....
...Others prove glorious, few more so than the “racing turquoise seas” of the Western Isles that Fiennes visits arm-in-arm with James Boswell and Dr Johnson (1773)....
...At the centre of The Club was the literary giant Samuel Johnson, and the man who immortalised his words of wisdom: Johnson’s biographer, the prolific diarist, drunkard and philanderer James Boswell....
...As the writer Caryl Phillips recalls in a catalogue essay, he once heard Horace Ové and James Baldwin “conversationally bouncing between Harlem, Trinidad and Brixton....
...People borrowing these words to denounce patriotism in general forget that James Boswell, in the The Life of Samuel Johnson, adds an important qualification: “But let it be considered, that he did not mean...
...Rubin wrote a masterpiece decades ago but has since then been what James Joyce called “a praiser of his own past”: arrogant, demanding and generally no one’s favourite uncle....
...The Burning Girl , by Claire Messud, Fleet, RRP£16.99/WW Norton, RRP$25.95, 224 pages Francesca Segal is author of ‘The Awkward Age’ (Chatto & Windus) Illustration by James Boswell...
...One of the Old Town’s plethora of hidden pockets that snake off the arterial Royal Mile, its smart Georgian dwellings once housed the likes of James Boswell....
...James, a sound director in the film industry who lives in south-west London, claims that it’s quicker for him to come surfing here than it is to go to Cornwall....
...But for me it is his biographer, James Boswell, who best encapsulates the enduring attraction of this furious city....
...James Boswell, in his 1791 Life of Samuel Johnson, described it like this: “Vauxhall Gardens is peculiarly adapted to the taste of the English nation; there being a mixture of curious show — gay exhibition...
...James Boswell recounts an incident that captures this orthodoxy in his The Life of Samuel Johnson....
...In an excellent chapter on books, she extols James Boswell for his sparkling intelligence and his engaging underlying guilelessness, and she admires Montaigne’s habit of spending a short time every day thinking...
...At nine in the evening of Saturday June 25 1763, Samuel Johnson walked with James Boswell to the Mitre Tavern in Fleet Street....
...James Boswell summed up the whole event in his diary: “After the joy of the Jubilee came the uneasy reflection that I was in a little village in wet weather and knew not how to get away.”...
...Last week, the first of Andrew Marr’s Great Scots: The Writers Who Shaped a Nation (Saturday BBC2 9.15pm) was James Boswell, a Caledonian best known for his association with a great Englishman....
...In the wainscoted dining-rooms and studies above the ground-floor shops, sometimes a more cerebral and convivial note was struck by the fashionable lodgers and their guests: James Boswell held brilliant...
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