 The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast...  The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Rambler - Page 283by Samuel Johnson - 1825Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...may be added 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 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...may be added 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 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...may be added 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 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... | |
 | 1803 - 290 pages
...honest 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...produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast... | |
 | 1805 - 632 pages
...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 pages
...honest 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...exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel tach other only by prudence and by virtue. The account of Thuanus is, with great propriety, said by... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pages
...may be added 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 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... | |
 | 1808 - 512 pages
...to take advantage 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 incidents, which promote vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and to display the minute detail... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 346 pages
...prejudice, ana to gain attention by a celet 48 RAMBLER. No. 60. brated name ; but the business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances...details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cust aside, and men excel each other only by 'prudence and by virtue. The account of Thuanus is, with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...honest 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...produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast... | |
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