James Boswell

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5 total works indexed

1. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

   · 2021 · cited 76,845x

2. Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations

   · 1976 · cited 67,150x

3. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

   · 2012 · cited 65,030x

4. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 34,528x

5. Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.

   · 1988 · cited 31,220x

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Quotes

• “Boswell is pleasant and gay, For frolic by nature designed; He heedlessly rattles away When company is to his mind.”
• “I jumped up on the benches, roared out, "Damn you, you rascals!", hissed and was in the greatest rage. [...] I hated the English; I wished from my soul that the Union was broke and that we might give them another battle of Bannockburn.”
• “'Sir,' said Mr Johnson, 'a lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.'”
• “I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.”
• “The best good man, with the worst natur'd muse.”
• “Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1740-10-29 ) 29 October 1740 ( N.S. ) , Edinburgh , Scotland

Died

19 May 1795 (1795-05-19) (aged 54), London, England

Occupation

Lawyer diarist biographer

Education

University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow Utrecht University

Years active

1762–1791

Notable works

Life of Johnson

Spouse

Margaret Montgomerie ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1769 ; died 1789 ) ​

Children

7, including Alexander and James

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