I love anecdotes. I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made. The Book of Table-talk - Page iby Charles MacFarlane - 1836Full view - About this book
| James Boswell - Hebrides - 1785 - 548 pages
...aphoriftically, except in narrative ; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illuftration, and all thofe arts by which a big book is made. — If a man is to- wait till he weaves anecdotes into a fyftem, we may be long in getting them, and get but few, in comparifon of what we might get." Dr. Robertfon... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1785 - 546 pages
...allaphoriftically, except in narrative ; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illuftration, and all thofe arts by which a big book is made.— If a man is to wait till he weaves anecdotes into a fyftem, we may be long in getting them, and get but few, in comparifon of what he might get." Dr. Robertfon... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative ; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big...but few, in comparison of what we might get.' Dr. Robertson said, the notions of Eupham Macallan, a fanatick woman, of whom Lord Hailes gives a sketch,... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1810 - 438 pages
...time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative ; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big...but few, in comparison of what we might get." Dr. Robertson said, the notions or Eupham Macallan, a fanatick woman, of whom Lord Hailes gives a sketch,... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1813 - 492 pages
...time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big...system, we may be long in getting them, and get but few, m comparison of what we might get." . Dr. Robertson said, the notions of Eupham Macallan, a fanatick... | |
| William Davis (bibliographer.) - Bibliography - 1814 - 146 pages
...1814. . tinted by J'. HAYES, I lmout/1 Street, it ettminstcr, ) PREFACE. If a man is to wait 'fill he weaves anecdotes into a system, we may be long...and get but few, in comparison of what we might get. Johnson. As it is the province of a good housewife to eater according to the known tastes of the different... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...in time to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connexion, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made." Many a volume indeed has often been written to demonstrate, what a lover of proverbs could show had... | |
| James Boswell - 1831 - 612 pages
...in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connexion, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big...but few, in comparison of what we might get." Dr. Robertson said, the notions of Eupham Macallan, a fanatick woman, of whom Lord Hailes gives a sketch,... | |
| James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...in time, to write all aphorisiically, except in narrative; grow m*ry of preparation, and connexion, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big...them, and get but few, in comparison of what we might gel." Dr. Robertson said, the notionsof Eupham Macallan, a fanatick woman, of whom Lord Hailes give*... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1834 - 466 pages
...time to write all aphoristically, except in narrative ; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.' Many a volume indeed has often been written to demonstrate, what a lover of proverbs could show had... | |
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