 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 pages
...is particularly fine, strike it out." 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 ot the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...Eutropius: and I will venture to say, that if yot compare him with Vertot, in the same places of Ûu t his widowed mother, and to protect his brothers and sisBut what sisters has he left? lie has no everj thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He ii now writing a Natural History, and will make... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 612 pages
...is particularly fine, strike it out.' 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 Historv, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...think is particularly fine, strike it out' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 346 pages
...is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you...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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 348 pages
...is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement 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... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 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...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... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, English - 1837 - 600 pages
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 pages
...abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius : and I will venture to say, that if yon never saw Tony so sprightly before. Ah every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make... | |
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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,... 
