 ... 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
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 394 pages
...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 character of that man, cujus ingenium et candorem ex ipsius scriptis... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 508 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 - 1822 - 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... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 476 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 - 1825 - 526 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 - 1825 - 538 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, vith great propriety, said by its author to have been written, that it might lay open to posterity... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...details of daily life, where exterior / appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only i by prudence and by virtue. The account of Thuanus is, ' with great propriety, said by its author to have been writ- ' ten, that it might lay open to posterity the private and familiar... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 pages
...minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only bv gave, and explained them distinctly ; and at their first coining * f said by its author to have been written, that it might lay open to posterity the private and familiar... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 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 aut hour to have been written, that it might lay open to posterity the private and familiar... | |
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