 | James Boswell - 1901 - 450 pagina’s
...Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Floras or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of...Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it... | |
 | Whitwell Elwin - 1902 - 574 pagina’s
...he went on, " is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say that if you compare him with Vertot in the same places of...Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner." l Though there is broad truth in the commendation of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 468 pagina’s
...Eutropius ; and I will venture to say. that, if you compare him with Vertot in the same places of the Koman History, you will find that he excels Vertot Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1903 - 330 pagina’s
...Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot in the same places of the ' Eoman History,' you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir,...natural history, and will make it as entertaining. aa a Persian tale." The natural history to which Johnson alluded was the " History of Animated Nature,"... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1903 - 446 pagina’s
...of Lucius Florus l or Eutropius ; 2 and I will venture to say, that, if you compare him with Vertot3 in the same places of the Roman History, you will...Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1903 - 336 pagina’s
...Lucius 20 Florus0 or Eutropius0 ; and I will venture to say, that, if you compare him with Vertot0 in the same places of the Roman History, you will...Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and 25 will make... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 626 pagina’s
...Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of...Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852
...Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of...pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and he will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale." I cannot dismiss the present topic without observing,... | |
 | Frank Frankfort Moore - 1910 - 534 pagina’s
...Goldsmith's Abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius, and I will venture to say that if you compare him with Vertot in the same places of...Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying everything that he has to say in a pleasing manner." While any one accustomed to Boswell's methods... | |
 | Richard Ashe King - 1910 - 370 pagina’s
...or Eutropius; and, I will venture to say that, if you compare him with Vertot in the same places of Roman History you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner, He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it... | |
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Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling and... 
