 | 1874 - 992 pages
...orators, than Boswell Is the first of biographers. Many of tlie greatest men that have ever lived nave written biography, Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all. Bis was talent, and uncommon talent, to Jemmy Boswell we indeed owe manj hours of supreme delight."... | |
 | 1874 - 414 pages
...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 - 876 pages
...nowhere. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect BO strange 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... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 pages
...nowhere. We are not 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 898 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...meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described him aa a fellow who had missed his only chance of immortality by not having been alive when the Dnnciad... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 374 pages
...offends. But he had no liveliness of temperament, no activity of mind, if we may trust Macaulay. ' He was, if we are to give any credit to his own account...him, a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect.' Yet this 'Tour to Corsica' was not the act of an intellect that was either mean or feeble. He was,... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 374 pages
...offends. But he had no liveliness of temperament, no activity of mind, if we may trust Macaulay. ' He was, if we are to give any credit to his own account...him, a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect.' Yet this 'Tour to Corsica' was not the act of an intellect that was either mean or feeble. He was,... | |
 | Harper and brothers - 1880 - 374 pages
...We are not 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...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,... | |
 | Providence Public Library (R.I.) - 1881 - 346 pages
...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 - 342 pages
...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. 
