...eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool he would never have been a great writer. Without all the qualities that made him the jest and torment of those among whom he lived, without the officiousness, the inquisitiveness,...

...eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer....torment of those among whom he lived, — without the ofRciousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toadeating, the insensibility to all reproof,...

...eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer....him the jest and the torment of those among whom he lived—without the oificiousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toadeating, the insensibility...

...eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer....excellent a book. He was a slave, proud of his servitude ja Paul Pry, convinced that his own curiosity and garrulity were virtues ; an unsafe companion, who...

...eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer....— without the officiousness, the inquisitiveness, 'he effrontery, the toad-eating, the insensibility to all reproof, he never could have produced so...

...fool, ho would never have been a great writer." This assertion he supports by such remarks as these : " Without all the qualities which made him the jest...he never could have produced so excellent a book. ... Of the talents which ordinarily raise men to eminence ns writers, Boswell had absolutely none....

...Chesterfield — Boswell, the biographer of Johnson — Mr. Macaulay thus descants : " If Boswell had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer....reproof, he never could have produced so excellent a book Of the talents which ordinarily raise men to eminence as writers, Boswell had absolutely none. There...

...Chesterfield-—Boswcll, the biographer of Johnson—Mr. Macaulay thus descants: " If Boswell had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer....reproof, he never could have produced so excellent a book Of the talents which ordinarily raise men to eminence as writers, Boswell had absolutely none. There...

...eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer....— without the officiousness, the Inquisitiveness, 'he effrontery, the toad-eating, the insensibility to all reproof, he never could have produced so...

...eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been ihe jest and the torment of those among whom he lived — without the officiousness, the Inquisitiveness,...