| D. Richmond - 1859 - 312 páginas
...the first of orators, tban Boswell is the first of biographers. Manv of the greatest men that have ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one...smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all. His was talent, and uncommon talent, and to Jemmy Boswell we indeed owe many hoars of supreme delight."... | |
| Sir William Howard Russell - 1859 - 128 páginas
...the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. Many of the greatest men that have ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one...smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all. His was talent, and uncommon talent, and to Jemmy Boswell we indeed owe many hours of supreme delight."... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1030 páginas
...so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them ; Eclipse is first, and 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 book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography:... | |
| Henry Ward Beecher - 1859 - 446 páginas
...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 Btrange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography.... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1028 páginas
...GO decidedly that It is not worth while to place them : Eclipse Is first, and all the reft 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... | |
| James Boswell - 1859 - 320 páginas
...is the first of hiographers. Many of the greatest men that have ever lived have written hiography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all. His was talent, and uncommon talent, and to Jemmy Boswell we indeed owe many hours of supreme delight."... | |
| Sir Vivian Dering Majendie - 1859 - 408 páginas
...first of biographers. Many of the greatest men that have ever lived have written biography, lioswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all. His was talent, and uncommon talent, aad to Jemmy Boswell we indeed owe many hoars of supreme delight."... | |
| John Solomon Rarey - 1859 - 290 páginas
...the tirr of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. Many of the greatest men th»t have ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men thtt ever lived, and he has beaten them all. His was talent, and uncommon talent, udto Jemmy Boswell... | |
| 1859 - 296 páginas
...the first cf orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. Many of the greatest men thai have ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men thii ever lived, and he has beaten them all. His was talent, and uncommon talent, and to Jemmy Boswell... | |
| lady Caroline Lucy Scott (hon.) - 1860 - 440 páginas
...the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. Many of the greatest men that have ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one...smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all. His was talent, and uncommon talent, and to Jemmy Boawell we indeed owe many hours of supreme delight."—... | |
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