 | Eugene Lawrence - Historians - 1855 - 410 pages
...think particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if...History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, ho has the art of compiling and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1855 - 588 pages
...cumbrous, and diffuse. " Goldsmith's abridgement," he went on, " is better than thиt of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say that, if you compare him with Vcrtot in the same places of Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 pages
...abridgement ibetter than that of Lucius Floras or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if yon compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find tut be excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to MJ in a... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1861 - 416 pages
...think is particularly fine, strike it out!' Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Yertot in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the... | |
 | James Whiteside - Authors, English - 1862 - 100 pages
...think is particularly fine, strike it out." Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Floras or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if...Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a natural history, and will make... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 664 pages
...is particularly fine, strike it out ! ' Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that, if...you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the nrt of compiling, and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a... | |
 | James Whiteside - Great Britain - 1868 - 498 pages
...think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if...Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a natural history, and will make... | |
 | Washington Irving - Authors, Irish - 1868 - 486 pages
...is particularly fine, strike it out ! ' Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that, if...places of the Roman History, you will find that he excel* "HISTORY OF ANIMATED NATURE." 257 Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying everything... | |
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Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling,... 
