| 1855 - 654 páginas
...than Chesterfield — Boswell, the biographer of Johnson — Mr. Macaulay thus descants : " If Boswell had not been a great fool, he would never have been...the torment of those among whom he lived, without the officiousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toad-eating, the insensibility to all reproof,... | |
| 1855 - 670 páginas
...than Chesterfield-—Boswcll, the biographer of Johnson—Mr. Macaulay thus descants: " If Boswell had not been a great fool, he would never have been...the torment of those among whom he lived, without the officiousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toad-eating, the insensibility to all reproof,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 752 páginas
...His blunders would not come in amiss among the stories of Hierocles. But these men attainet! library eminence in spite of their weaknesses. "* Boswell...of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, hs would never have been a great writer. Without all the qualities which made him the jest and the... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 páginas
...society a mere simpleton. His blunders would not come in amiss among the stories of Hierocles. But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their...great writer. Without all the qualities which made him ihe jest and the torment of those among whom he lived — without the officiousness, the Inquisitiveness,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1859 - 768 páginas
...society a mere simpleton. His blunders would not come in amiss among the stories uf Hierocles. But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their...of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, h« would never have been a great writer. Without all the qualities which made him the jest and the... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1084 páginas
...stories of Hierocles. But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Bos well attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had...the torment of those among whom he lived, without the officiousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toadeating, the insensibility to all reproof,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 752 páginas
...society a mere simpleton. His blunders would not come in amiss among the stories of Hierocles. But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their...the torment of those among whom he lived — without the officiousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toad-eating, the insensibility to all reproof,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 422 páginas
...eome in amiss among the stories of Hierocle». But these men attained literary eminenee in spite ol their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of...have been a great writer. Without all the qualities whieh made him the jest and the torment of those among whom he lived — without the offieiousness,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 500 páginas
...society a mere simpleton. His blunders would not come in amiss among the stories of Hierocles. But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their...weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses, jlf he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writerT] Without all the qualities... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 704 páginas
...society a mere simpleton. His blunders would not come in amiss among the stories of Hieroclea. But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their...the torment of those among whom he lived, without the officiousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toad-eating, the insensibility to all reproof,... | |
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