 | Adolph Heimann - 1859 - 446 σελίδες
...and momentary glance towards her child. Clark's Travels in Syria. XXXIX. ON HISTORY OF MANNERS. LORD MONBODDO. The history of manners is the most valuable. I never set a value on any other history. DR. JOHNSON. Nor I; and therefore I esteem biography, as giving us what... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 σελίδες
...held so, is plain from this ; that Euripides, in his Hecuba, makes him the person to interpose." 3 take care to keep an exact journal, and to register...all occurrences and observations ; for your friends " Yes ; but then you must take all the facts to get this, and it is but a little you get. MONBODDO.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 434 σελίδες
...first to set an example of agricultural improvement.—ED. him the person to interpose."*—MONBODDO: " The history of manners is the most valuable. I never...what comes near to ourselves, what we can turn to use."—BOSWELL . " But in the course of general history we find manners. In wars, we see the dispositions... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 σελίδες
...ancients held so, is plain from this ; that Euripides, in his Hecuba, makes him the person to interpose."3 MONBODDO. " The history of manners is the most valuable....therefore I esteem biography, as giving us what comes Dear to ourselves, what we can turn to use." BOSWELL. - But in the course of general history we find... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 544 σελίδες
...held so, is plain from this ; that Euripides, in his Hecuba, makes him the person to interpose." 1 MONBODDO. "The history of manners is the most valuable....degrees of humanity, and other particulars." JOHNSON. " Yes ; but then you must take all the facts to get this, and it is but a little you get." MONBODDO.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 454 σελίδες
...carried on with extraordinary abilities on both sides. Dr. Johnson maintained the superiority of Homer. manners is the most valuable. I never set a high value...degrees of humanity, and other particulars." — JOHNSON : " Yes ; but then you must take all the facts to get this ; and it is but a little you get." — MONBODDO... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 492 σελίδες
...held so, is plain from this ; that Euripides, in his Hecuba, makes him the person, to interpose2.' MONBODDO. 'The history of manners is the most valuable....JOHNSON. 'Nor I ; and therefore I esteem biography, as giving1 us what comes near to ourselves, what we can turn to use3.' BOSWELL. ' But in the course of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 480 σελίδες
...held so, is plain from this ; that Euripides, in his Hecuba, makes him the person to interpose." ' MONBODDO. " The history of manners is the most valuable....degrees of humanity, and other particulars." JOHNSON. " Yes ; but then you must take all the facts to get this, and it is but a little you get." MONBODDO.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 558 σελίδες
...held so, is plain from this ; that Euripides, in his Hecuba, makes him the person to interpose." ' MONBODDO. " The history of manners is the most valuable....degrees of humanity, and other particulars." JOHNSON. " Yes ; but then you must take all the facts to get this. and it is but a little you get." MONBODDO.... | |
 | JAMES BOSWELL - 1892
...held so, is plain from this ; that Euripides, in his Hecuba, makes him the person to interpose." * MONBODDO. " The history of manners is the most valuable....degrees of humanity, and other particulars." JOHNSON. " Yes ; but then you must take all the facts to get this. and it is but a little you get." MONBODDO.... | |
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But in the course of general history, we find manners. In wars, we see the dispositions of people, their degrees of humanity, and other particulars. 
