 | 1857 - 610 strani
...We are not 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...his own account, or to the united testimony of all who knew him, a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow who had... | |
 | 1832 - 428 strani
...them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book....his own account, or to the united testimony of all who knew him, a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow who had... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 512 strani
...them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book....his own account, or to the united testimony of all who knew him, a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow who had... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 strani
...Boswell and Johnson in his mind with a visible, palpable reality, such as none but a master could ensure? "Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived;...his own account, or to the united testimony of all who knew him, a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow who had... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 410 strani
...strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biopraphy. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived;...his own account, or to the united testimony of all who knew him, a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow who had... | |
 | 1866 - 956 strani
...intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have writtca biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all." Reynolds was not the man to succumb to the dreary privations of age. As he lost his old friends he... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 strani
...or hereafter. BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book....his own account, or to the united testimony of all who knew him, a man of the meanest and i'eeblest intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow who bad... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 strani
...greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that erer $ B x B ? @ u X who kcew him, a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described himasafeflow who had missed... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 strani
...Demosthenes is riot 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." Undoubtedly Boswell was a vain man, a bore, a ridiculous man — without moral dignity, without any... | |
 | 1849 - 736 strani
...away under the spell from gif antic elevation to dwarfish littleness."* peaking of Boswell, he says, " Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written...men that ever lived ; and he has beaten them all." Again ; after mentioning some distinguished writers : " But these men attained literary eminence in... | |
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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. 
