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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. "
A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of ... - Página 258
editado por - 1903 - 415 páginas
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The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment, Volume 8

1832 - 424 páginas
...nowhere. We are not 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...meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described Mm as a fellow who had missed his only chance of immortality, by not having been alive when the Úunciad...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of his tour to ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1835 - 366 páginas
...We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so singular a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography — Boswell has beaten them all. This book resembles nothing so much as the conversation of the inmates of the...
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John Eddowes (bookseller.) - 1840 - 536 páginas
...sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so singular a phenomenon as this hook. Many of the greatest men that ever lived, have written biography — Boswell has beaten them all." — Edinburgh Review. " BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON is THE RICHEST DICTIONARY OF...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 410 páginas
...nowhere. We are not 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 biopraphy. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived; and he has beaten them all. He was,...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 88

1866 - 956 páginas
...says Macaulay, " 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 writtca biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all."...
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Scenes and characters from the writings of Thomas Babington Macaulay. To ...

Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 páginas
...JOHNSON.. We are not 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...testimony of all who knew him, a man of the meanest and i'eeblest intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow who bad missed his only chance of immortality,...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...nowhere. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon tes knows that, even when they have no intention to...their reports »f conversation always require to be erer lived ; and he has beaten them all. He was, if we are to give any credit to his own account, or...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 4

Half hours - 1847 - 616 páginas
...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...
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Half-hours with the Best Authors, Volume 4

Charles Knight - 1847 - 620 páginas
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The American Whig Review, Volume 3;Volume 9

1849 - 736 páginas
...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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