 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pages
...6 We are not 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 bio7 graphy; Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all. He was,... | |
 | 1855 - 534 pages
...prime qualities of a biographer. Mr. Macanlay says, in his immortal criticism upon Croker's Boswell : " Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written...that ever lived; and he has beaten them all. He was a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow who had missed his only... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pages
...nowhere. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon ake the fame of wri''en biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived ; and he has beaten them all.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 pages
...We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the hitman intellect so strange я phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have wr::»en biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that erer lived; and he has beairn them all.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 430 pages
...interest. We are not 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...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... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1856 - 288 pages
...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."... | |
 | Alexandre Dumas - 1856 - 494 pages
...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."—... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1856 - 334 pages
...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."... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1856 - 248 pages
...the first of irators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. Many of the greatest men that lave ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that iver lived, and he has beaten them all. His was talent, and uncommon talent, and ;o Jemmy Boswell we... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - 1856 - 330 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
