 | Frederick Marryat - 1856 - 470 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 pages
...nowhere. 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 wri"en biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived ; and he has beaten them all.... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1857 - 200 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."—... | |
 | 1858 - 616 pages
...the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biograpners. 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."... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1858 - 574 pages
...the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. Many of the greatesi 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 Chandler Haliburton - 1858 - 524 pages
...the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biograpners. 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."... | |
 | Sir Richard George Augustus Levinge - 1858 - 72 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."... | |
 | A. E - 1858 - 318 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."... | |
 | Alfred Wilks Drayson - 1858 - 446 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 alt. His was talent, and uncommon talent, and to Jemmy Boswell we indeed owe many hours of snprcmc... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1858 - 1022 pages
...the human Intellect so singular a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever Иг-cd have written biography ; Boswell was one of the smallest...men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all." — TB MACAITLAT: Erlin, ¿ferian, 1831. " Boswell's Life of Johnson is such a masterpiece in its particular... | |
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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. 
