 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.  A System of Rhetoric - Стр. 216авторы: Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - Страниц: 673Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | lady Caroline Lucy Scott (hon.) - 1860 - Страниц: 440
...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 Boawell we indeed owe many hours of supreme delight."—... | |
 | Samuel Lucas - 1860 - Страниц: 368
...the first of orators, tLan Hoswcll is the first of biographers. Many of the greatest men that have ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has benten them all. His was talent, and uncommon talent, and to Jemmy Uoswell we indeed owe many hours... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - Страниц: 752
...the greatest men that ever lived have wri^en biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that erer lived; and he has beaten them all. He was, if we are...all who knew him a man of the meanest and feeblest 10 intellect. Johnson described him as a felkrw who had missed his only chance of immortality, by not... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - Страниц: 422
...sure that there is in the whole history of the human intelleet 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. Ho was, if we are to give any eredit to his own aeeount, or to the united testimony of all who knew... | |
 | Giuseppe Garibaldi - 1861 - Страниц: 366
...the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. Many of the greatest men that hare ever lived have •written biography. Boswell was...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 Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - Страниц: 704
...strange a phaenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written — biegmphy. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived,...meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow who had missed his only chance of immortality by not having been alive when the Dunciad... | |
 | Thomas Purnell - 1867 - Страниц: 316
...Demosthenes is not more decidedly " the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of " biographers. Many of the greatest men that " ever lived have written...men that ever lived, and he " has beaten them all." This dictum is elegantly and plainly expressed; the meaning cannot be missed —but, is it just ? If... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - Страниц: 610
...vein of good sense and good fellowship/' PORTRAIT OF JAMES BOSWELL. MACACLAT.* 1. Mauy of the jreatest men that ever lived, have written biography. Boswell...the smallest men that ever lived; and he has beaten thnm all. He was, if we are to give any credit. to his own account, or to the united testimony of all... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1869 - Страниц: 422
...subject as usual by an antithesis: "Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biographies. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all." His sentiment has been repeated by many others, who find it convenient to echo what a great writer... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - Страниц: 704
...sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phaenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written...meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow who had missed his only chance of immortality by not having been alive when the Dunciad... | |
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