 ... 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
 | 1801 - 326 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 et candorem ex ipjiur feriptis funt dim femper miraturitvfhoi& candour and genius will... | |
 | 1803 - 290 pages
...privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each 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 - 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
...display the minute details of daily life, where 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 its author to have been written, that it might lay open to posterity the private and familiar... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 308 pages
...domestickfprivacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior 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 author to have been written, that it might lay open to posterity the private and familiar... | |
 | 1810 - 464 pages
...privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior 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 author to have been written, that it might lay open to posterity the private and familiar... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 pages
...privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior 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 author to have been written, that it might lay open to posterity the private and familiar... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior 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 author to have been written, that it might lay open to posterity the private and familiar... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 394 pages
...privacies, and display the minute details of duily life, where exterior 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 author to have been -written, that it might lay open to posterity the private and familiar... | |
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