Servile and impertinent, shallow and pedantic, a bigot and a sot, bloated with family pride, and eternally blustering about the dignity of a born gentleman, yet stooping to be a talebearer, an eavesdropper, a common butt in the taverns of London... The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment - Page 2331832Full view - About this book
| 1831 - 652 pages
...he proclaimed to all the world, that at Edinburgh he was known by the appellation of Paoli Boswell. Servile and impertinent, — shallow and pedantic,...about, that, Tory and High Churchman as he was, he manaMivred, we have been told, for an introduction to Tom Paine, — so vain of the most childish distinctions,... | |
| Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 pages
...he proclaimed to all the world, that at Edinburgh he was known by the appellation of Paoli Boswell. Servile and impertinent, — shallow and pedantic,...butt in the taverns of London, — so curious to know everybody who was talked about, that, Tory and High Churchman as he was, he manoeuvred, we have been... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 410 pages
...he was known by the appellation ofPaoli Boswell. Servile and impertinent—shallow and pedantic—a bigot and a sot— bloated with family pride, and...butt in the taverns of London— so curious to know everybody who was talked about, that, Tory and High Churchman as he was, he manffiuvred, we have been... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...he proclaimed to all the world, that at Edinburgh' he was known by the appellation of Paoli BoivxS. " ! ! "F ! ! ! " \! " " " " " " know1 everybody who was talked about, that, Tory and ' High Churchman as he was, he manoeuvred, we... | |
| Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...he proclaimed to all the world, that at Edinburgh he was known by the appellation of Paoli Boswell. Servile and impertinent — shallow and pedantic —...talebearer, an eavesdropper, a common butt in the taveriis of London — so curious to know everybody who was talked about, that, Tory and High Churchman... | |
| Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pages
...proclaimed to all the world, that 15 at Edinburgh, he was known by the appellation of Paoli Boswell. Servile and impertinent, shallow and pedantic, a bigot...to be a talebearer, an eaves-dropper, a common butt ia the taverns of London; so curious to know everybody 16 who was talked about, that, tory and high... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 pages
...he proclaimed to all the world, that at Edinburgh he was known by the appellation of Paalt Lostcell. Servile and impertinent — shallow and pedantic —...stooping to be a talebearer, an eavesdropper, a common L'utl in the taverns of London — so curious to know everybody who was talked about, that, Tory and... | |
| 1852 - 780 pages
...he proclaimed to all the world, that at Edinburgh he was known by the appellation of Paoli Botwell. W7 H ǭ:m 0 B T L ЦcI " ps ML<ԙ jaC "x b« a talebearer, an eavesdropper, a common butt in the taverns of London — so curious to know everybody... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 430 pages
...appellation of Paoli Boswell. Servile and impertinent— shallow and pedantic—a bigot and a sot—bloated with family pride, and eternally blustering about...talebearer, an eavesdropper, a common butt in the taverns of London—so curious to know everybody who was talked about, that, Tory and High Churchman as he was,... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1855 - 670 pages
...than blown away, no sooner blown away than forgotten.' Here is James Boswell (or a piece of him) : " Servile and impertinent, shallow and pedantic, a bigot...eavesdropper, a common butt in the taverns of London," &c. After the bear-leader, the bear himself — with " his scrofula, his St. Vitus's dance, his rolling... | |
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