 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 pages
...you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement ace, the commo be has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 pages
...you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out." Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius...if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places ot the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...Eutropius: and I will venture to say, that if yot compare him with Vertot, in the same places of Ûu t his widowed mother, and to protect his brothers and sisBut what sisters has he left? lie has no everj thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He ii now writing a Natural History, and will make... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 612 pages
...you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius;...compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman Historv, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius;...Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 346 pages
...you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius;...Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement uages, and then permitting its disuse. For this purpose, the translation every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 348 pages
...is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Floras or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if...Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 606 pages
...you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out!' Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius...Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say, in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 pages
...you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out!' Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus, or Eutropius;...Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say, in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make... | |
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Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out." Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with... 
