 | 1874 - Počet stránok 414
...first of biographers. Many of the greatest men that have ever lived have written biography. Boswcll was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all. His was talent, and uncommon talent, to Jemmy Boswell we indeed owe many hours of supreme delight."... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1875 - Počet stránok 876
...a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswcll was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all Ho was, if we are to give any credit to his own account or to the united testimony of all who knew... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - Počet stránok 334
...sure that there is in the history of the whole human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written...that ever lived, and he has beaten them all. He was a slave, proud of his servitude ; a Paul Pry, convinced that his own curiosity and garrulity were virtues... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1876 - Počet stránok 622
...there was in him a vein of good sense and good fellowship. " PORTRAIT OF JAMES BOSWELL. MAtUOUT.* 1. Many of the greatest men that ever lived, have written...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1878 - Počet stránok 144
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - Počet stránok 640
...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...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 man... | |
 | Harper and brothers - 1880 - Počet stránok 374
...sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so singular a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written...men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all.— LOE» MAOA.ULAY. Dr. Johnson's Works. The edition of Boswell by my able and learned friend, Mr. Croker,... | |
 | 1881 - Počet stránok 578
...sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. en names make up the first story and the recorded...names ever since contain not one living century. The if we are to give any credit to his own account or to the united testimony of all who knew him, a man... | |
 | Providence Public Library (R.I.) - 1881 - Počet stránok 346
...history of the human intellect so singular a phenomenon as this hook. Many of the greatest men that have ever lived have written biography : Boswell was one...men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all." Edinburgh Review, Sept., *8 j1. A writer in the Quarterly Review, in a still more emphatic expression... | |
 | Providence Public Library (R.I.) - 1881 - Počet stránok 342
...phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that have ever lived have written biography : Bnswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all." Edinburgh fievie™, Sept., 1831. A writer in the Quarterly Review, in a still more emphatic expression... | |
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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. 
