 The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast...  Boswell's Life of Johnson - Страница 5по James Boswell - 1901Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 страници
...the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit. " The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and...produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick. privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exteriour appendages are... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 страници
...the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit. ' The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and...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 - 648 страници
...the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit. 'The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and...produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exteriour appendages are cast... | |
 | 1803 - 290 страници
...advantages of prejudice, and to gain attention by a celebrated name ; but the business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and...other only by prudence and by virtue. The account of Thuamis is, with great propriety, said by its author to have been written, that it might lay open to... | |
 | 1805 - 632 страници
...privacies, and difplay the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are call alide, and men excel e.ach other only by prudence and by virtue. The account of Thuauus is, with great propriety, 1'aid by its author to have been written, that it might lay open... | |
 | 1806 - 346 страници
...advantages of prejudice, and to gain attention by a celebrated name ; but the business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and...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 - 514 страници
...the sentiments of the very man whose life 1 am about to exhibit. " The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and...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 - 308 страници
...advantages of prejudice, and to gain attention by a celebrated name; but the business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and...produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestickfprivacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 страници
...advantages of prejudice, and to gain attention by a celebrated name; but the business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and...produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 394 страници
...advantages of prejudice, and to gain attention by a celebrated name ; but the business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and...domestic privacies, and display the minute details of duily life, where exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and... | |
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