 | 1911 - Počet stránok 588
...National Review.' Booksellers' Catalogues. Notices to Correspondent*. flotrs. GIBBER'S 'APOLOGY.' *' MANY of the greatest men that ever lived have written...men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all." Lord Macaulay may say what he likes ; I decline to believe that a great work can be executed by a small... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - Počet stránok 396
...strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written bio7 graphy; Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all. He was, if we are to 8 give any credit to his own account, or to the united testimony of all who knew him,... | |
 | 1852 - Počet stránok 780
...intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have wri''en account. For his sake empires had risen, and flourished, and decayed. For his sake the Almighty had if we are to give any credit to his own account, or to the united testimony of all who knew him, a... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - Počet stránok 430
...sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written...Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived; aad he has beaten them all. He was, if we are to give any I.credit to his own account, or to the united... | |
 | Alexandre Dumas - 1856 - Počet stránok 494
...the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. Many of the greatest men that have ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one...smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all. His was talent, and uncommon talent, and to Jemmy Boswell we indeed owe manyhuurs of supreme delight."—... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1856 - Počet stránok 288
...the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. Many of the greatest men that have ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one...smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all. His was talent, and uncommon talent, and to Jemaiy Uoswell we indeed owe many hDurs of supreme delight."... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1856 - Počet stránok 334
...the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. Many of the greatest men that have ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one...smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all. His was talent, and uncommon talent, and to Jemmy Boswell we indeed owe many hours of supreme delight."... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - Počet stránok 770
...intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have wri"en biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived ; and he has beaten them all. He was, if we are to give any credit to his own account, or to the united testimony of all who knew him, a... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - 1856 - Počet stránok 330
...first of biographers. Many of the greatest men that have ever lived have written biography. lioswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten th.em.all. His was talent, and uncommon talent, and to Jemmy Boswell we indeed owe many hours of supreme... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - 1856 - Počet stránok 470
...decidedly the first of rators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. Many of the greatest men that ave ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ver lived, and he has heaten them all. His was talent, and uncommon talent, and to emmy Boawell we... | |
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Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all. 
