 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...rjdov} /ioXXov TJ fid^ai pvpioveicpoi, Kal Trapa-raj-eis at i, /cat 7ro\iopKiai TroXewv. ' Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that...greatest sieges, or the most important battles'.' To this may be added the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit. 'The business... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
.../uaXXcw rj (Jd^ai fjivpiove/cpoi,, KOI Traparafet? at pfyiffTcu, /cat TroXto/3/a'at TroXewj/. ' Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that...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 to exhibit. '... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...*JCU 'sroAXaxjf, xj fifta, x) -rraiSioi. TK fff-- al piytf-ou, )£ voXiopHia TTO'AEWV. " Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that...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 to exhibit. "... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...i/jupaua J9ot/c itroiwu fJL«.)(yi ,ui/f/5Kxfo<, Ta^ari^c <ti (tiyffiu, KOJ iroMcfiua, ir'oKtot. is it always in the most distinguished achievements that...the greatest sieges, or the most important battles." 5 To this may be added the sentiments of the very man whose life 1 am about to exhibit. " The business... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1813 - 522 pages
...exactness, but rather in a short summary; since we are not writing Histories, but Lives. Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that...the greatest sieges or the most important battles. Therefore, as painters in their portraits labour the likeness in the face, and particularly about the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...цй.ЧXoс r\ uà\at uvfnoviеpvi, iraparaîut a! utyi-;ai, Kat iro\iopKÎa TTÓ\ÍWV. " Nor is it always io the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues...the greatest sieges, or the most important battles." To this may be added the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit. " The business... | |
 | James Beattie - Ethics - 1817 - 450 pages
...always in the most distinguished achieve' ments that men's virtues or vices may be best dis» f cerned } but very often an action of small note, a ' short...' real character, more than the greatest sieges or * most important battles.' This author's aim was to give, not a complete detail of all the actions... | |
 | 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...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 to exhibit. " The... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1821 - 350 pages
...exactness, but rather in a short summary ; since we are not writing Histories, but Lives. Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that...the greatest sieges or the most important battles. Therefore, as painters in their portraits labour the likeness in the face, and particularly about the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 394 pages
...sp.ipa.inv rfiou; iitotyff,ev jjtaXXov TJ irafara£s<y ai ftEyitrrai, xai -n iro\itav. " Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that...greatest sieges, or the most important battles."* To this may be added the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit. " The business... | |
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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... 
