 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 844 pages
...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 strange a phaenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell... | |
 | Harper and brothers - 1880 - 374 pages
...biographers. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is uot worth while to place them. 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 - 1880 - 488 pages
...competitors so decidedly, that t is not worth white to place them : Eclipse is first, and the rest no^where. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intefle'ct do singular a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that evor lived have writte'n'... | |
 | Providence Public Library (R.I.) - 1881 - 342 pages
...phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that have ever lived have written biography : Bnswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all." Edinburgh fievie™, Sept., 1831. A writer in the Quarterly Review, in a still more emphatic expression... | |
 | Providence Public Library (R.I.) - 1881 - 346 pages
...considered almost a classic in its unique portraiture of character. [" We are not sure," says Macaulay, " that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so singular a phenomenon as this hook. Many of the greatest men that have ever lived have written biography... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - 878 pages
...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...the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this hook. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1882 - 558 pages
...minutely and adoringly told by James Boswell, of whom Lord Macaulay wrote, " Many of the greatest men who ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and ho has beaten them all." The son of a Lichfield bookseller, young Johnson eagerly read the volumes... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 876 pages
...competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. ass U! thr.t ever lived, and he has beaten them all. He was, if we are to give any credit to his own account... | |
 | Edward A. Thomas - 1883 - 654 pages
...ever been written. "Boswell," says Macau lay, " is the first of biographers. He has no second. . . . Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all." Died 1795. Bothwell, James Hepburn, EARL OP, a Scottish conspirator; born about 1526 ; joined the Protestant... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 824 pages
...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...the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this bonk. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest... | |
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We are 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. 
