 The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast...  Boswell's Life of Johnson - Stran 5avtor: James Boswell - 1901Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 strani
...the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit. " The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and...produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick. privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exteriour appendages are... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 strani
...the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit. ' The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and...produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exteriour appendages are cast... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 strani
...the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit. 'The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and...produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exteriour appendages are cast... | |
 | 1803 - 290 strani
...advantages of prejudice, and to gain attention by a celebrated name ; but the business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and...other only by prudence and by virtue. The account of Thuamis is, with great propriety, said by its author to have been written, that it might lay open to... | |
 | 1805 - 632 strani
...privacies, and difplay the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are call alide, and men excel e.ach other only by prudence and by virtue. The account of Thuauus is, with great propriety, 1'aid by its author to have been written, that it might lay open... | |
 | 1806 - 346 strani
...advantages of prejudice, and to gain attention by a celebrated name ; but the business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and...produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 strani
...the sentiments of the very man whose life 1 am about to exhibit. " The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and...produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exteriour appendages are cast... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 308 strani
...advantages of prejudice, and to gain attention by a celebrated name; but the business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and...produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestickfprivacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 strani
...advantages of prejudice, and to gain attention by a celebrated name; but the business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and...produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 394 strani
...advantages of prejudice, and to gain attention by a celebrated name ; but the business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and...domestic privacies, and display the minute details of duily life, where exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and... | |
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