 | James Boswell - Authors, Scottish - 1768 - 426 pages
...amber. But I faw my higheft idea rcaliicd in Paoli. It was impoffible for me, fpeculate as I pleafed, to have a little opinion of human nature in him. One...I came in upon him without ceremony, while he was drelling. I was glad to have an opportunity of feeing him 1 1 in thofe teafing moments, when according... | |
 | James Boswell - Corsica - 1768 - 424 pages
...my higheft idea realifed in Paoli. It was impoffible for me, ipeculate as I pleafed, to have a mean opinion of human nature in him. • : • ... ; •••...I came in upon him without ceremony, while he was drefJing. I was glad to have an opportunity of feeing him in thofe leafing moments, when according... | |
 | James Boswell - Corsica (France) - 1769 - 430 pages
...amber. But I faw my higheft idea realized in Paoli, If •was impofllble for me, fpeculate as I pleaied, to' have a little opinion of human nature in him....I came in upon him without ceremony, while he was drefling. I was glad to have an opportunity of feeing him in thofe teafing moments, when according... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 460 pages
...heen able to draw from books, from conversation, or from the exertions of my own mind. I had often formed the idea of a man continually such as I could...pleased, to have a little opinion of human nature in him. Dr. Johnson. I gave Paoli the character of my revered friend Mr. Samuel Johnson. I have often regretted... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 402 pages
...been able to draw from books, from conversation, or from the exertions of my own mind. I had often formed the idea of a man continually such as I could...pleased, to have a little opinion of human nature in him. Dr. Johnson. I gave Paoli the character of my revered friend Mr. Samuel Johnson. I have often regretted... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pages
...been able to draw from books, from conversation, or from the exertions of my own mind. I had often formed the idea of a man continually such as I could...pleased, to have a little opinion of human nature in him. Dr. Johnson. I gave Paoli the character of my revered friend Mr. Samuel Johnson. I have often regretted... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 546 pages
...been able to draw from books, from conversation, or from the exertions of my own mind. I had often formed the idea of a man continually such as I could...pleased, to have a little opinion of human nature in him. Dr. Johnson. I gave Paoli the character of my revered friend Mr. Samuel Johnson. I have often regretted... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 544 pages
...been able to draw from books, from conversation, or from the exertions of my own mind. I had often formed the idea of a man continually such as I could...pleased, to have a little opinion of human nature in him. Dr. Johnson. I gave Paoli the character of my revered friend Mr. Samuel Johnson. I have often regretted... | |
 | George Mallory - 1912 - 364 pages
...Boswell in any case are clear enough, and we may read a few specimens from the ' Tour in Corsica.' The contemplation of such a character really existing...those teasing moments, when, according to the Duke of Rochefoucault, no man is a hero to his valet de chambre. The lively nobleman who has a malicious... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - English literature - 1915 - 346 pages
...which may exist, but do not ; of seas of milk and ships of amber. But I saw my highest idea realized in Paoli. It was impossible for me, speculate as I...to have a little opinion of human nature in him." 1 " Never," he writes, " was I so thoroughly sensible of my own defects as while I was in Corsica."... | |
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I had often enough formed the idea of a man continually such as I could conceive in my best moments. But this idea appeared like the ideas we are taught in the schools to form of things which may exist, but do not ; of seas of milk, and ships of amber.... 
