... 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... The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Rambler - Page 386by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787Full view - About this book
| 1750 - 228 pages
...excel each cither only by prudence, and by virtue. The life oSTbuamu is, with great propriety, laid by its author to have been written, that it might lay open to posterity the private and familiar character of that man, cujus iagenium et caadarem ex iff/us fcriptis... | |
| 1785 - 596 pages
...privacies, and difplay the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are caft aflde,and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue....account of Thuanus is, with great propriety, faid by it's author to have been written, that k might lay open to pofterity the private and familiar character... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pages
...privacies, and difplay the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages arc caft afide, and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue....pofterity the private and familiar character of that man, cujus ingenium et candor em ex ipfnts fcriptis funt olim femper miraturi, whofe candour and genius... | |
| James Boswell - 1791 - 556 pages
...privacies, and difplay the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are caft afide, and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue....account of Thuanus is with great propriety faid by its authour to have been written, that it might lay open to pofteriry the private and familiar character... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 pages
...privacies, and difplay the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are caft afide, and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue....pofterity the private and familiar character of that man, cujus ingenittm et candorem ex ipfius fcriptis Junt dim Jenifer tniraturi, whofe candour and genius... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 pages
...other only hy prurleiiceand by virtue. Theaccount ot'Thuanus is', with great propriety, faid by it's author to have been written, that it might lay open...pofterity the private and familiar character of that man, cuj/ts ingenium et canJorem ex Ipfus fcriplis font olin femper miraturi— -whole candour and genius... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exteriour appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue. The account of Thuanus is with great propriety said by its authour to have been written, that it might lay open to posterity the private and familiar... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exteriour appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue. The account of Thuanus is with great propriety said by its authour to have been written, that it might lay open to posterity the private and familiar... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exteriour appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue. The account of Thuanus is with great propriety said by its authour to have been written, that it might lay open to posterity the private and familiar... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pages
...privacies, and difplay the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are caft afide, and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue....pofterity the private and familiar character of that man, cujus ingenium tt eandorem ex ipjius feriptis funt olim femper miraturit whofe candour and genius will... | |
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