James Boswell [ Art and Literature ]
… to his excessive drinking, which placed a limit on his capacity for sociability. People > Art and Literature Keywords Alcohol Depression Charm Manners Sex Boswell, who was born into a Scottish Presbyterian legal and landowning family in … the legal profession. He found some alleviation in the pleasures of the Edinburgh cultural scene, including the theatre, alcohol and an affair with an actress. These, and especially the latter two, drink and women, characterised his lifelong … seems to have been utterly beyond embarrassment, especially at large social occasions, and especially after consuming alcohol. The other side of this coin is that he seemed happy to be made fun of when that furthered the sociability of a …
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