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" Servile and impertinent, shallow and pedantic, a bigot and a sot, bloated with family pride, and eternally blustering about the dignity of a born gentleman, yet stooping to be a talebearer, an eavesdropper, a common butt in the taverns of London... "
Cassell's old and new Edinburgh - Page 99
by James Grant - 1880
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Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1862 - 508 pages
...he proclaimed to all the world that at Edinburgh he was known by the appellation of Paoli Boswell. Servile and impertinent, shallow and pedantic, a bigot...pride, and eternally blustering about the dignity of n. bom gentleman, yet stooping to be a talebearer, an eavesdropper, a common butt in the taverns of...
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The Works of Lord Macaulay, Complete: Critical and historical essays

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 704 pages
...he proclaimed to all the world that at Edinburgh he was known by the appellation of Paoli Boswell. Servile and impertinent, shallow and pedantic, a bigot...pride, and eternally blustering about the dignity of a bom gentleman, yet stooping to be a talebearer, an eavesdropper, a common butt in the taverns of London,...
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Sanders' Rhetorical, Or, Union Sixth Reader: Embracing a Full Exposition of ...

Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 610 pages
...of " PAOLI BOSWELL." 3. Servile and impertinent—shallow and pedantic—a bigot and a sot—bloated with family pride, and eternally blustering about...dignity of a born gentleman, yet stooping to be a talebearor, and eaves-dropper, a common butt in the taverns of London—so curious to know everybody...
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The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volume 5

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1871 - 704 pages
...he proclaimed to all the world that at Edinburgh he was known by the appellation of Paoli Boswell. Servile and impertinent, shallow and pedantic, a bigot...butt in the taverns of London, so curious to know every body who was talked about, that, Tory and high Churchman as he was, he manoeuvred, we have been...
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Reviews and essays from 'The Edinburgh'.

Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 328 pages
...he proclaimed to all the world that at Edinburgh he was known by the appellation of Paoli Boswell. Servile and impertinent, shallow and pedantic, a bigot...who was talked about, that, Tory and high Churchman as he was, he manoeuvred, we have been told, for an introduction to Tom Paine, so vain of the most...
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Essays, reprinted from the Edinburgh review

Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 264 pages
...Tour, he proclaimed to all the world that at Edinburgh he was known by the appellation of Paoli Boswdl. Servile and impertinent, — shallow and pedantic,...who was talked about, that, Tory and high Churchman as he was, he manoeuvred, we have been told, for an introduction to Tom Paine, — so vain of the most...
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Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1875 - 876 pages
...he proclaimed to all the world that at Edinburgh he was known by the appellation of Paoli Boswell. Servile and impertinent, shallow and pedantic, a bigot...yet stooping to be a talebearer, an eavesdropper, • common butt in the taverns of London, so curious to know every body who was talked about, that,...
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Sanders' Rhetorical, Or, Union Sixth Reader: Embracing a Full Exposition of ...

Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1876 - 622 pages
...on Macaulay, over Exercise CI. at Edinburgh he was known by the appellation of " PAOLI BOSWELL." 3. Servile and impertinent — shallow and pedantic —...a born gentleman, yet stooping to be a talebearer, and eaves-dropper, a common butt in the taverns of London — so curious to know everybody who was...
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Old Words and Modern Meanings: Being a Collection of Examples from Ancient ...

Thomas Whitcombe Greene - English language - 1876 - 340 pages
...pull. — SYLVESTER. Boswell. Servile and impertinent, shallow and pedantic, bloated with family pride, yet stooping to be a tale-bearer, an eaves-dropper, a common butt in the taverns of London Yet the ' Life of Johnson ' is assuredly a great — a very great — work. Homer is not more decidedly...
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Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1877 - 898 pages
...the appellation of Faoli Boswell. Servile and impertinent, shallow and pedantic, a bigot and a tot, bloated with family pride, and eternally blustering...butt in the taverns of London, so curious to know every body who was talked about, that Tory and high Churchman as he was, he manoeuvred, we have been...
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