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... not more decidedly the first of orators than Boswell is the first of biographers . He has no second . He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them . Eclipse is first , and the rest nowhere ...
... not more decidedly the first of orators than Boswell is the first of biographers . He has no second . He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them . Eclipse is first , and the rest nowhere ...
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Página 78 - Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere.
Página 15 - Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion...
Página 86 - When I was a lad I served a term As office boy to an Attorney's firm. I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor, And I polished up the handle of the big front door.
Página 212 - As we sallied forth, every dog in the establishment turned out to attend us. There was the old stag-hound Maida...
Página 192 - Wellinformed people know that it is impossible to transmit the human voice over wires as may be done with dots and dashes and signals of the Morse code, and that, were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value. The authorities who apprehended this criminal are to be congratulated, and it is...
Página 142 - We feel entirely at home in it. Our feet are on our native heath. We can go in and go out, and give and take on equal terms. And now I will conclude with one word, perhaps it is the only proper word I ought to have said. On behalf of the entire Diplomatic Corps, whom I am happy here to represent, words...
Página 211 - Hodge to be out of countenance, adding, 'but he is a very fine cat, a very fine cat indeed.
Página 15 - Jesus Christ," so that it should read "a departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion" the insertion was rejected by a great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of it's protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and infidel of every denomination.