| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...eminence 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...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 - عدد الصفحات: 410
...eminence 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...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 - عدد الصفحات: 782
...eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not |l 8= g Մ !g ' n f.y z =H *:4 '|k g C 'FB N...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... | |
| 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 1428
...eminence 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." And again ; " He had indeed a quick observation and a retentive memory. These qualities, if he had... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 764
...eminence 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...— without the officiousness, the inquisitiveness, 'he effrontery, the toad-eating, the insensibility to all reproof, he never could have produced so... | |
| 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 848
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 670
...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...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 - عدد الصفحات: 654
...Chesterfield — Boswell, the biographer of Johnson — Mr. Macaulay thus descants : " If Boswell had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great...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 - عدد الصفحات: 770
...eminence 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...— 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 - عدد الصفحات: 780
...eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not ihe jest and the torment of those among whom he lived — without the officiousness, the Inquisitiveness,... | |
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