 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
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 strani
...celebrated name ; but the business of the biogra pher is often to pass slightly over those perform anees and incidents, which produce vulgar greatness, to...minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages arc cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue. The account of Thuanus is,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 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... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1848 - 906 strani
...affirms, that ' it u the business of a biographer to pass lightly over those performances and actions which produce vulgar greatness ; to lead the thoughts...display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appearances are laid aside.' " Thus is Mr. Boswell acquitted of all treachery to the fame and memory... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 strani
...iijfcdj orer those performances and incidents »aieh produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts uoo domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are wt Bide, and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue. The account of Thuanus *> nth great... | |
 | Historical Society of Pennsylvania - 1853 - 472 strani
...descend below the consultations of senates, the motions of armies and the schemes of conspirators, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies and display...minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages nre cast aside, and men excel each other 141 only by prudence and by virtue. There are many invisible... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 strani
...whose life I am about to exhibit : — •* The business of the biographer is often to pass «lightly over those performances and incidents which produce...details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cut aside, arid men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue. The account of Thuanus tv with... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 strani
...business of tbe biographer is often to pass dijrbtiy over those performances and incidents ••inch produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute daaxjs of daily lifc, where exterior appendages are cut aside, and men excel each other only by prudence... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 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 exterior appendages are cast... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 strani
...having our lives in print every day. Household Words, July 25, 1857. The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and...aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and virtue. DR. S. JOHNSON : Rambler, No. 60. But biography has often been allotted to writers who seem... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 strani
...having our lives in print ever)- day. Household Words, July 25, 1857. The business of the Biographer is ltivate the intellectual part for the attainment of...the view of past life in the man who is grown old virtue. DR. S. JOHNSON : Rambler, No. 60. But biography has often been allotted to writers who seem... | |
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