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" 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 i
by Charles MacFarlane - 1836
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Curiosities of Literature, Volume 1

Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1834 - 462 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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Curiosities of Literature, Volume 1

Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1834 - 456 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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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connexion, ng that to be his motive, he is no better than Robertson said, the notions of Eupham Macallan, a fanatick woman, of whom Lord Hailes gives a sketch,...
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Curiosities of Literature, Volume 3

Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1835 - 588 pages
...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...
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The Book of Human Character, Volume 2

Charles Bucke - Anecdotes - 1837 - 360 pages
...in time* to write all aphoxistically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connexion, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big...long in getting them, and get but few, in comparison of'what we might get.' D«. JOHNSON. (/joatcclFs Tow.} LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS Stamford...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D: Including A Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 602 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 ofEupham Macallan, a fanatick woman, of whom Lord Hailes gives u-sketch,...
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Curiosities of Literature: And the Literary Character Illustrated

Isaac Disraeli - American literature - 1846 - 530 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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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 pages
...time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative ; grow weary of preparation, and connection, ing, that there was very rich land around Edinburgh....Disconcerted a little by Ihis, Mr. Ogilvie then took Robertson said, the notions of Eupham Macallan, a fanatic woman, of whom Lord Hailes gives a sketch,...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. [Followed by] The journal of a tour to ..., Volume 5

James Boswell - 1851 - 410 pages
...grow weary of preparation, and connexion, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big hook is made. If a man is to wait till he weaves anecdotes...get but few in comparison of what we might get." Dr. Robertson said the notions of Eupham Macallan, a fanatic woman, of whom Lord Hailes gives a sketch,...
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The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 2

John Forster - 1854 - 572 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." -Bus. iv. 31. * The question about duelling appears to have arisen out of a capital anecdote which...
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