 | James Boswell - 1791 - 556 pages
...Dialogues, he deemed a nugatory performance. ' That 170. man (faid he,) fat down to write a book, to teil the world what the world had all his life been telling him.' " Somebody obferving that the Scotch Highlanders in the year 1745, had made furprizing efforts, confidering... | |
 | 284 pages
...chaftifement. Lord Lyttelton's Dialogues, he deemed a nugatory performance. * That man (faid he,) fat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him.' Speaking of the Inward light, to which fome methodifts pretended, he faid, it was a principle utterly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1798 - 464 pages
...cafe." Lord Lyttelton's Dialogues he deemed a pugatory performance. " That man (faid he) fat dowfi to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him." ' He attacked Lord Monboddo's ftrange fpeculation on the primitive ftate of human nature ; obferving,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pages
...chastisement. " Lord Lyttelton's Dialogues, he deemed a nugatory performance. ' That man, (said he,) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him.' " Somebody observing that the Scotch Highlanders in the year 1745, had made surprising efforts, considermg... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...chastisement. " Lord Lyttelton's Dialogues, he deemed a nugatory performance. ' That man, (said he,) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him.' " Somebody observing that the Scotch Highlanders in the year 1745, had made surprising efforts, considering... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 pages
...that was the case." Lord Lyttelton's Dialogues he deemed a nugatory performance. " That man (said he) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him." He attacked Lord Monboddo's strange speculation on the primitive state of human nature j observing,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...chastisement. " Lord Lyttelton's Dialogues, he deemed a nugatory performance. " That man, (said he,) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling hita.' " Somebody observing that the Scotch Highlanders, in the year 1745, had made surprising efforts,... | |
 | John Selden - 1818 - 678 pages
...that was the case." Lord Lyttelton's Dialogues he deemed a nugatory performance. " That man (said he) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him1." He attacked Lord Monboddo's strange speculation on the primitive state of human nature; observing,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...chastisement. " Lord Lyttelton's Dialognes, he deemed a nugatory performance. " That man, (said he,) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him.' " Somebody observing that the Scotch Highlanders, in the year 1740, had made surprising efforts, considering... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 382 pages
...very forcibly." Lord Lytteltou's Dialogues he deemed a nugatory performance, " That man," said he, " sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him." Speaking of Boethins, who was the favourite writer of the middle ages, he said it was very surprising*... | |
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Dialogues, he deemed a nugatory performance. ' That man, (said he,) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him. 
