 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 - Strona 5autor: James Boswell - 1901Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | James Boswell - 1799 - Liczba stron: 496
...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 - Liczba stron: 640
...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 - Liczba stron: 648
...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 - Liczba stron: 290
...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 - Liczba stron: 632
...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 - Liczba stron: 346
...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 - Liczba stron: 514
...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 - Liczba stron: 308
...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 - Liczba stron: 462
...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 - Liczba stron: 394
...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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