...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...smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all. He was, if we are to give any credit to his own account, or to the united testimony of all who knew...

...first, and the rest nowhere. We arc not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the...men that ever lived ; and he has beaten them all. He was, if we are to give any credit to his own account, or to the united testimony of all who knew...

...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. Many of the...men that ever lived ; and he has beaten them all. He was, if we are to give any credit to his own account, or to the united testimony of all who knew...

...rest nowhere. 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...

...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; and he has beaten them all. He was, if we are to give any credit to his own account, or to the united testimony of all who knew...

...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...

...world. " We are not sure," 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."...

...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. Many of the...men that ever lived ; and he has beaten them all. He was, if we are to give any credit to his own account, or to the united testimony of all who knew...

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...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...