 We arc 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. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived ; and he has beaten them...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 21831Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pages
...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... | |
 | John Eddowes (bookseller.) - 1840 - 536 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 410 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1866 - 956 pages
...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."... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...decidedly, that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. We are r rays htt and ««y« slits are proverbial. l>ery...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1911 - 588 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 pages
...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 of the...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,... | |
 | 1855 - 534 pages
...prime qualities of a biographer. Mr. Macanlay says, in his immortal criticism upon Croker's Boswell : " Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written...that ever lived; and he has beaten them all. He was a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow who had missed his only... | |
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