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 99by James Grant - 1880Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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