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" 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 biography. "
Scenes and characters from the writings of Thomas Babington Macaulay. To ... - Pagina 42
door Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 105

1857 - 610 pagina’s
...competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. ' We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phaenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of his tour to ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pagina’s
...competitors so decidedly, that it is not worth while to place them: Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. 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...
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Bookseller's catalogues

John Eddowes (bookseller.) - 1840 - 536 pagina’s
...so decidedly, that it is not worth while to place them : Eclipse is first nnd all the rest nowhere. We are not 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...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 410 pagina’s
...competitors so decidedly, that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. We are not sure that there is in the whole history...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,...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 88

1866 - 956 pagina’s
...opportunities, and yet engaged on the best biography in the world. " We are not sure," says Macaulay, " that there is in the whole history of the human intellect...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."...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pagina’s
...competitors so decidedly, that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. y. Their rays htt and ««y« slits are proverbial....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...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 4

Half hours - 1847 - 616 pagina’s
...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...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 3;Volume 9

1849 - 736 pagina’s
...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...
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Notes and Queries

1911 - 588 pagina’s
...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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A Course of Reading for Common Schools and the Lower Classes of Academies ...

Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pagina’s
...so de5 cidedly, that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest, nowhere. 6 We are not sure that there is in the whole history...Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written bio7 graphy; Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all. He was,...
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