...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...testimony of all who knew him, a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow who had missed his only chance of immortality...

...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...men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all.— LOE» MAOA.ULAY. Dr. Johnson's Works. The edition of Boswell by my able and learned friend, Mr. Croker,...

...sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. en names make up the first story and the recorded...names ever since contain not one living century. The feeblest intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow who had missed his only chance of immortality...

...history of the human intellect so singular a phenomenon as this hook. Many of the greatest men that have ever lived have written biography : Boswell was one...men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all." Edinburgh Review, Sept., *8 j1. A writer in the Quarterly Review, in a still more emphatic expression...

...phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that have ever lived have written biography : Bnswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all." Edinburgh fievie™, Sept., 1831. A writer in the Quarterly Review, in a still more emphatic expression...

...sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this hook. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written...testimony of all who knew him, a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow who had missed his only chance of immortality...

...minutely and adoringly told by James Boswell, of whom Lord Macaulay wrote, " Many of the greatest men who ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and ho has beaten them all." The son of a Lichfield bookseller, young Johnson eagerly read the volumes...

...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...them all. He was, if we are to give any credit to ins own account or to the united testimony of all who knew him, a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect....

...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 thr.t ever lived, and he has beaten them all. He was, if we are to give any credit to his own account...

...ever been written. "Boswell," says Macau lay, " is the first of biographers. He has no second. . . . Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all." Died 1795. Bothwell, James Hepburn, EARL OP, a Scottish conspirator; born about 1526 ; joined the Protestant...