 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
 | Charles William Bardeen - English language - 1884 - 828 pages
...he proclaimed to all the world that at Edinburgh he was known by the appellation of Faoli Boswell. Servile and impertinent, shallow and pedantic, a bigot...know everybody who was talked about, that, Tory and High-churchman as he was, he rnano2iivred, we have been told, for an introduction to Tom Paine, so... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - English language - 1884 - 828 pages
...he proclaimed to all the world that at Edinburgh he was known by the appellation of 1'uoli Boswell. Servile and impertinent, shallow and pedantic, a bigot...curious to know everybody who was talked about, that, Toiy and High-churchman as he was, he manoeuvred, we have been told, for an introduction to Tom Paine,... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - English language - 1884 - 828 pages
...lie was known by the appellation of 1'aoli Boswell. Servile and impertinent, shallow and i>edantic, a bigot and a sot, bloated with family pride, and...curious to know everybody who was talked about, that, Toiy and High-churchman as he was, he manoeuvred, we have been told, for an introduction to Tom Paino,... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - English language - 1884 - 824 pages
...he proclaimed to all the world that at Edinburgh he was known by the appellation of I'aoli Boswell. Servile and impertinent, shallow and pedantic, a bigot...eavesdropper, a common butt in the taverns of London, so curions to know everybody who was talked about, that, Tory and High-churchman as ho was, he manoeuvred,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1885 - 916 pages
...was known by the appellation of Paoli Boswell. Servile and impertinent, shallow and pedantic, a higot rnments ever propose to themrelres as their chief object. If there is taj class of people who are every body who ws talked about, that, Tory and high Churchman as he was, he manoeuvred, we have been... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - English literature - 1886 - 478 pages
...ever written, the most difficult to lay down once it has been taken up." Macaulay describes him as "servile and impertinent, shallow and pedantic, a...eavesdropper, a common butt in the taverns of London," and declares that "if he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer." Something... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...pride, and eternally blustering about the dignity of a bom gentleman, yet stooping to be a Ыe-bearer, 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 - 1890 - 1100 pages
...he proclaimed to nil the world that at Edinburgh he was known by the appellation of Paoli Boswell. e time before Bacon began to entertain any apprehensions....him great influence in the house of which he had bom gentleman, yet stooping to be a tale-bearer, an eavesdropper, a common butt in the taverns of London,... | |
 | American fiction - 1905 - 556 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...dignity of a born gentleman, yet stooping to be a tale bearer, an eaves-dropper, a common butt in the taverns of London, so curious to know everybody... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1892 - 934 pages
...appellation of Paoli Boswctt. Servile and impertinent,—shallow and pedantic,—a bigot and a sot,—bloated on the Swan London,—so curious to know everybody who was talked about, that, Tory and high Churchman as he was,... | |
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