...written valuable works, but they did so in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell's book is valuable because of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool he would never have been a great writer. It is because he had no djelicacy or shame or common-sense, that he has surpassed Tacitus, and even...

...as an inspired idiot, and by another as a being \Yho wrote like an angel and talked like poor Poll. attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses....Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If ho had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer. Without all the qualities which...

...in society a mert; simpleton. His blunders would not come in amiss among the stories ot Hieroeles. But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it bj reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer....

...stooping to be a tale-bearer, an eavesdropper, a common butt in the taverns of London," and declares that "if he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer." Something may, no doubt, be said on behalf of both these estimates ; but Brougham comes much nearer...

...blunders would not come in amiss among the stories of Hierocles. But these men attained literary eininence obert Cochrane boes a great writer. Without all the qualities which made him the jest and the torment of those among...

...not because it gave pain to the bears, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." " If lioswell had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer." (c) By Exclamation, which ia a figure employed to express strong emotion, as : — " What a piece of...

...and whose conversation has indicated no superior powers of mind, have left us valuable works. . . . But these men attained literary eminence in spite...great fool, he would never have been a great writer." Macaulay has been justly taken to task by Carlyle for allowing his love of paradox to lead him into...

...these men attained literary eminence in spite Attainment of their weaknesses. Bos- "emir^nc!. well of Lancaster for life, a tellership of the Exchequer, any amount of pension, two thousand a year, six thoso among whom he lived, without the officiousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toad-eating,...

...y dyn ysgrifenodd un o'r llyfrau mwyaf poblogaidd gyhoeddwyd erioed. Dywed Macaulay am Boswell : " If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer." Byddai Johnson yn arfer dyweyd mai Boswell oedd y " cydymaith teithiol goreu yn y byd ; " ac os yw...

...that reminds us of the coarse familiarity of Swift. Thus, speaking of Boswell, he says — " If he bad not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer." So of Chatham, he says — "He was not invited to become a placeman, and he therefore stuck firmly...