 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 biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them...  Life of Johnson: Edited, with Introduction - Página 55por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1857 - 610 páginas
...competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. ' 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 have written biography. Boswell... | |
 | 1831 - 652 páginas
...decidedly, that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. We arc not sure that there is in the whole history of the...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 him, a... | |
 | 1832 - 428 páginas
...competitors so decidedly, that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. We are not sure that there is in the whole history...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 him, a... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 páginas
...competitors so decidedly, that it is not worth while to place them: Eclipse is first, and the 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... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 páginas
...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 him, a... | |
 | John Eddowes (bookseller.) - 1840 - 536 páginas
...so decidedly, that it is not worth while to place them : Eclipse is first nnd all the rest nowhere. We are not 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 410 páginas
...competitors so decidedly, that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. We are not sure that there is in the whole history...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,... | |
 | 1866 - 956 páginas
...opportunities, and yet engaged on the best biography in the world. " We are not sure," says Macaulay, " that there is in the whole history of the human intellect...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."... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 páginas
...invincible spirit dared the worst that could befall him here or hereafter. BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.. We are not sure that there is in the whole history...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 him, a... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...competitors so decidedly, that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. y. Their rays htt and ««y« slits are proverbial....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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