 ... 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 - 1831 - 600 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 U» authour to have been written, that it might lay open to posterity the private and familiar... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 604 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 - 1833 - 1182 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, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast aside, s of defects and vices which we hope to conceal from the said by its author to have been written, that it might lay open to posterity the private and familiar... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 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 - 1835 - 604 pages
...minute details of daily life, where exteriour appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other ony bv X @ said by ts authour to have been written, that it might lay open to posterity the private and amiliar... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 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 - 1840 - 334 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, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 620 pages
...and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast aside, and men eicel 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 - 1846 - 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 authour to have been written, that it might lay open to posterity the private and familiar... | |
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