| James Boswell - 1799 - عدد الصفحات: 640
...battles1.' To this may be added the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit. ' The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly...produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exteriour appendages are cast... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - عدد الصفحات: 648
...important battles'.' To this may be added the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit. 'The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly...produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exteriour appendages are cast... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...battles."5 To this may be added the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit. " The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly...produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick. privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exteriour appendages are... | |
| 1806 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...been their learning, integrity, and piety. But this notion arises from false measures of excellence and dignity, and must be eradicated by considering,...produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 514
...battles." 5 To this may be added the sentiments of the very man whose life 1 am about to exhibit. " The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly...produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exteriour appendages are cast... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 308
...been their learning, integrity, and piety. But this notion arises from false measures of excellence and dignity, and must be eradicated by considering,...produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestickfprivacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast... | |
| 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...senates, and the motions of armies." " It is not" says the same author, " Improper to take advantage of prejudice, and to gain attention by a celebrated...slightly over those performances and incidents, which promote vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and to display the minute detail... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 308
...integrity, and piety. But this notion arises from false measures of excellence and dignity, and must ba eradicated by considering, that in the esteem of uncorrupted reason, what is of most use is of most Talue. It is, indeed, not improper to take honest advantages of prejudice, and to gain attention by... | |
| 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...been their learning, integrity, and piety. But this notion arises from false measures of excellence and dignity, and must be eradicated by considering,...often to pass slightly over those performances and in-: cidents, which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 462
...by considering, that in the esteem of oricorrypted reason, what is of most use is of most value, Jt It is, indeed, not improper to take honest advantages...produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast... | |
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