 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...chronological series of actions or preferments ; and have so little regard to the manners or behaviour of their heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of...begun with his pedigree, and ended with his funeral. (' There are indeed, some natural reasons why these narratives are often written by such as were not... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...chronological series of actions or preferments; 'and have so little regard to the manners' or behaviour of their heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of...begun with his pedigree, and ended with his funeral. ' There are indeed, some natural reasons why these narratives are often written by such as were not... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...chronological series of actions or preferments; 'and have so little regard to the manners' or behaviour of their heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of...begun with his pedigree, and ended with his funeral. 'There are indeed, some natural reasons why these narratives are often written by such as were not... | |
 | 1803 - 290 pages
...a chronological series of actions or preferments ; and solittle regard the manners or behaviour of their heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character, by a short conversation \\itii one of his servants, than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree, and... | |
 | 1806 - 346 pages
...little regard the manners or behaviour of their ierous, that more knowledge may be gained of a ipan's real character, by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied flatrative, begun with his pedigree, and ended with liis funeral. If now and then they condescend to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pages
...chronological series of actions or preferments ; and have so little regard to the manners or behaviour of their heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of...begun with his pedigree, and ended with his funeral. " There are indeed, some natural reasons why these narratives are often written by such as were not... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 308 pages
...a chronological series of actions or preferments ; and so little regard the manners or behaviour of their heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of...not always so happy as to select the most important. 1 know not well what advantage posterity can receive from the only circumstance by which Tickell has... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 pages
...a chronological series of actions or preferments ; and so little regard the manners or behaviour of their heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of...funeral. If now and then they condescend to inform tjhe world of particular facts, they are not always so happy as to select the most important. I know... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 346 pages
...heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of a nu'n's real character, by a short conversation with o '= of his servants, than from a formal and studied narrative,...now and then they condescend to inform the world of p^iticular facts, they are not always so h ippy as to select the most important. I know not well what... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 394 pages
...a chronological series of actions or preferments ; and so little regard the manners or behavior of their heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of...by a short conversation with one of his servants, thtin from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree, and ended with his funeral. If... | |
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... more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral. 
