 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
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - Страниц: 876
...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 biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men thr.t ever lived, and he has beaten them all. He was, if we are to give any credit to his own account... | |
 | Edward A. Thomas - 1883 - Страниц: 654
...ever been written. "Boswell," says Macau lay, " is the first of biographers. He has no second. . . . Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all." Died 1795. Bothwell, James Hepburn, EARL OP, a Scottish conspirator; born about 1526 ; joined the Protestant... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - Страниц: 828
...sure that there is in the whole history of tho human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written...meanest and fee-blest intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow who had missed his only chance of immortality by not having been alive when the Dunciad... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - Страниц: 828
...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...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... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - Страниц: 614
...Dr. Johnson. James Boswell (1740-1795). — Nothing can surpass Macaulay's portrait of Boswell : " He was, if we are to give any credit to his own account...man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson describes him as a fellow who had missed his only chance of immortality by not having been alive when... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - Страниц: 648
...Dr. Johnson. James Boswell (1740-1795). — Nothing can surpass Macaulay's portrait of Boswell : " He was, if we are to give any credit to his own account...man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson describes him as a fellow who had missed his only chance of immortality by not having been alive when... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - Страниц: 916
...strange a phaenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written hiography. . This practice was not secret, nor was it considered as disreputable. It was th Ho was, if we are to give any credit to his own account or to the united testimony of all who knew... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - Страниц: 572
...sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. filled their houses with wealth, made them happy in love and victorious as a fellow who had missed his only chance of immortality by not having been alive when the Dunciad... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1890 - Страниц: 1100
...sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect во strange a phenomenon aa thU book. e of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the sta waa one of the smallest men that ever lived. and he has beaten them all. He was. if we are to give... | |
 | Daniel Melancthon Tredwell - 1892 - Страниц: 516
...Many of the greatest men that have ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest, and he has beaten them all. He was, if we are to give...him, a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect." In a happy hour he fastened himself on Johnson. Johnson described him as a fellow who had missed his... | |
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