 | 1832 - 424 էջ
...nowhere. 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...meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described Mm as a fellow who had missed his only chance of immortality, by not having been alive when the Úunciad... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 էջ
...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 — Boswell has beaten them all. This book resembles nothing so much as the conversation of the inmates of the... | |
 | John Eddowes (bookseller.) - 1840 - 536 էջ
...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 — Boswell has beaten them all." — Edinburgh Review. " BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON is THE RICHEST DICTIONARY OF... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 410 էջ
...nowhere. 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 biopraphy. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived; and he has beaten them all. He was,... | |
 | 1866 - 956 էջ
...says Macaulay, " 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 writtca biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all."... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 էջ
...JOHNSON.. 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...testimony of all who knew him, a man of the meanest and i'eeblest intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow who bad missed his only chance of immortality,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 էջ
...nowhere. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon tes knows that, even when they have no intention to...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... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 էջ
...Demosthenes is riot more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. * * * * Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written...men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all." Undoubtedly Boswell was a vain man, a bore, a ridiculous man — without moral dignity, without any... | |
 | 1849 - 736 էջ
...away under the spell from gif antic elevation to dwarfish littleness."* peaking of Boswell, he says, " Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written...men that ever lived ; and he has beaten them all." Again ; after mentioning some distinguished writers : " But these men attained literary eminence in... | |
 | 1911 - 588 էջ
...National Review.' Booksellers' Catalogues. Notices to Correspondent*. flotrs. GIBBER'S 'APOLOGY.' *' MANY of the greatest men that ever lived have written...men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all." Lord Macaulay may say what he likes ; I decline to believe that a great work can be executed by a small... | |
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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 all. 
