 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1817 - 490 pages
...to extol the excellence and power of his wit, and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough , to cover a world of very great...that they were not taken notice oF to his reproach ; ' viz. a parrowness in his nature to" the lowest degree;- an , abjeptness andjw^rit of courage to... | |
 | Biography - 1817 - 490 pages
...to extol the excellence and power of his wit, and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great...that they were not taken notice of to his reproach ; viz. a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree; an abjectness and want of courage to support... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...extol the excellence and power of his " wit, and pleasantness of his conversation, than that " it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very " great...that they " were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz. a nar" rowness in his nature to the lowest degree ; an ab" jectness and want of courage to support... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...extol the excellence and power of his wit, and " pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was " of magnitude enough to cover a world of very " great...that they " were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz. a " narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree ; an " abjectness and want of courage to support... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 476 pages
...to extol the excellence and power of his wit, and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great...that they were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz. a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree ; an abjectness and want of courage to support... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell - History - 1821 - 668 pages
...excellency and power of his wit, and pleasantness of his conversation, was of sufficient magnitude to cover a world of very great faults ; that is, so...that they were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz. a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree ; an abjectness and want of courage to support... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 280 pages
...to extol the excellence and power of bis wit, and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great...that they were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz. a narrowness in bis nature to the lowest degree ; an abjectness and want of courage to support... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 652 pages
...to extol the excellence and power of his wit, and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great...that they were not taken notice of to his reproach; viz. a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree ; an abjectness and want of courage to support... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 484 pages
...great faults ; that is, so to cover them, that they were not taken notice of to his reproach ; viz. a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree ; an abjectness and \vant of courage to support him in any virtvious undertaking ; an insinuation and servile flattery... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 450 pages
...to extol the excellence and power of his wit, and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults; that roL. I. T is, so to cover them, that they were not taken notice of to his reproach; viz. a narrowness... | |
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There needs no more be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit, and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults ; that is, so to cover them, that they were not taken notice of... 
