 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1890 - Počet stránok 1100
...sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect во strange a phenomenon aa thU book. e of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the sta waa one of the smallest men that ever lived. and he has beaten them all. He was. if we are to give... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - Počet stránok 934
...intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have wiitten m physical science, the principles which those illustrations are intended beaicn them all. He was, if we are to gi»e any credit to his own account or to the united testimony... | |
 | 1905 - Počet stránok 556
...was, if we are to give any credit to his own account, or to the united testimony of all who knew him, a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described him as a man who had missed his only chance of immortality by not having been alive when the Dunciad was written.... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1894 - Počet stránok 546
...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...men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all." Died in 1795. — Thomas' Biog. Diet. C\\x' cauS^lt young.' " But I have ascertained from his near... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - Počet stránok 934
...sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. 1 if we are to give any credit to his own account or to the united testimony of all who knew him, a man... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - Počet stránok 282
...this great book in a very amusing but not very just article (Edinburgh Review, 1831). In it he says: " Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten all biographies." "His work is universally allowed to be interesting, instructive, and original, yet... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - Počet stránok 298
...this great book in a very amusing but not very just article (Edinburgh Review, 1831). In it he says: " Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten all biographies." "His work is universally allowed to be interesting, instructive, and original, yet... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - Počet stránok 256
...this great book in a very amusing but not very just article (Edinburgh Iieview, 1831). In it he says: "Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten all biographies." "His work is universally allowed to be interesting, instructive, and original, yet... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - Počet stránok 270
...that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. 10 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 - 1898 - Počet stránok 236
...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... | |
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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. 
