Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discerned; but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or... Elements of Moral Science - Page 298by James Beattie - 1817Full view - About this book
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discerned ; but very often an action of small note, a short saying,...person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles1.' To this may be added the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discerned ; but very often an action of small note, a short saying,...person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles'.' To this may be added the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discerned ; but very often an action of small note, a short saying,...person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles."5 To this may be added the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discerned ; but very often an action of small note, a short saying,...person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles." 5 To this may be added the sentiments of the very man whose life 1 am... | |
| Plutarchus - 1813 - 522 pages
...it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discerned; but very often an action of small note, a short saying,...person's real character more than the greatest sieges or the most important battles. Therefore, as painters in their portraits labour the likeness in the face,... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...it always io the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discerned ; but very often an action of small note, a short saying,...person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles." To this may be added the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtnes or sices may be best discerned ; but verv often an action of small note, a short saying, or...person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battler." To this may be added the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about... | |
| Plutarch - Greece - 1821 - 350 pages
...it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discerned; but very often an action of small note, a short saying,...person's real character more than the greatest sieges or the most important battles. Therefore, as painters in their portraits labour the likeness in the face,... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 394 pages
...it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discerned ; but very often an action of small note, a short saying,...person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles."* To this may be added the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 508 pages
...always in the most distinguished atchievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discerned ; but very often an action of small note, a short saying,...person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles." 5 To this may be added the sentiments of the very man whose life I am... | |
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