...stories of Hierocles. But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had...torment of those among whom he lived, — without the ofRciousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toadeating, the insensibility to all reproof,...

...stories of Hierocles. But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had...him the jest and the torment of those among whom he lived—without the oificiousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toadeating, the insensibility...

...stories of Hierocles. But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had...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...

...distinguished writers : " But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had...great fool, he would never have been a great writer." And again ; " He had indeed a quick observation and a retentive memory. These qualities, if he had...

...distinguished writers : " But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would петег have been a great writer." And again ; " He had indeed a quick observation and a retentive...

...stories of Hierocles. But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell can never return. Such is the law of our nature. Our judgment ripens, ou 1m would never have been a great writer. Without all the qualities which made him the jest and the...

...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....

...than Chesterfield-—Boswcll, the biographer of Johnson—Mr. Macaulay thus descants: " If Boswell had not been a great fool, he would never have been...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...

...than Chesterfield — Boswell, the biographer of Johnson — Mr. Macaulay thus descants : " If Boswell had not been a great fool, he would never have been...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...

...stories of Hierocles. But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had...— without the officiousness, the Inquisitiveness, 'he effrontery, the toad-eating, the insensibility to all reproof, he never could have produced so...