| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 516 páginas
...in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer....torment of those among whom he lived, — without the ofRciousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toadeating, the insensibility to all reproof,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 410 páginas
...in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer....him the jest and the torment of those among whom he lived—without the oificiousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toadeating, the insensibility... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a g Մ !g ' n f.y z =H *:4 '|k g C 'FB N { t...6 B:y h^ &e ~[$ U ;? -7> hrX g6߷ N{Ȝ<熛d D{ ja Paul Pry, convinced that his own curiosity and garrulity were virtues ; an unsafe companion, who... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 páginas
...in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer....— without the officiousness, the inquisitiveness, 'he effrontery, the toad-eating, the insensibility to all reproof, he never could have produced so... | |
| 1853 - 848 páginas
...fool, ho would never have been a great writer." This assertion he supports by such remarks as these : " Without all the qualities which made him the jest...he never could have produced so excellent a book. ... Of the talents which ordinarily raise men to eminence ns writers, Boswell had absolutely none.... | |
| 1855 - 654 páginas
...— Boswell, the biographer of Johnson — Mr. Macaulay thus descants : " If Boswell had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer....reproof, he never could have produced so excellent a book Of the talents which ordinarily raise men to eminence as writers, Boswell had absolutely none. There... | |
| 1855 - 670 páginas
...Chesterfield-—Boswcll, the biographer of Johnson—Mr. Macaulay thus descants: " If Boswell had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer....reproof, he never could have produced so excellent a book Of the talents which ordinarily raise men to eminence as writers, Boswell had absolutely none. There... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 páginas
...in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer....— without the officiousness, the Inquisitiveness, 'he effrontery, the toad-eating, the insensibility to all reproof, he never could have produced so... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 páginas
...in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a ihe jest and the torment of those among whom he lived — without the officiousness, the Inquisitiveness,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1859 - 768 páginas
...their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, h« would never have been a great writer. Without all...him the jest and the torment of those among whom he hved — without the officiousness, the inquisitiveness, 'he effrontery, the toad-eating, the insensibility... | |
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