 | Sir William Forbes - Medicine - 1806 - 578 pages
...I think, a very just criticism on Mr Boswell's " Tour to the Hebrides." LETTER CLXXXVI. BIl BEATTIE TO ROBERT ARBUTHNOT, ESQ. Aberdeen, 26th November,...does a man throw out, which he would never wish to hey of again ; and what a restraint would it be on all social intercourse, if one were to suppose that... | |
 | Sir William Forbes - 1807 - 410 pages
...'Tour to the Hebrides.' LETTER CLXXXVI. i DR BEATTIE TO ROBERT ARBUTHNOT, ESQ. • .* " , 'tT' , . Aberdeen, 26th November, 1785. - " Mr Boswell's book...man throw out, which he would never wish to hear of again ; and what a restraint would it be on all social intercourse, if one were to suppose that every... | |
 | 1807 - 592 pages
...Beattie to Robert Arbuthnot, Esq. ' Mr. Boswell's book is arrived at last, and I have just gone througji it. He is very good to me, as Dr. Johnson always was...and I am very grateful to both. But I cannot approve of trie plan of such a work. To publish a man's letters, or his conversation, without his consent,... | |
 | James Beattie, Thomas Gray - English literature - 1809 - 408 pages
...RBUTHNOT, ES«. . • Aberdeen, 26th November, 1785. " MR. BOSWELL'S book is arrived at last, and 1 have just gone through it. He is very good to me,...man throw out, which he would never wish to hear of again; and what a restraint would it be on all social intercourse, if one were to suppose that every... | |
 | James Beattie, Thomas Gray - English literature - 1809 - 414 pages
...ROBERT ARBUTHKOT, ESQ. Aberdeen, 26th November, 1785. " MR. BOS WELL'S book is arrived at last, and 1 have just gone through it. He is very good to me,...publish a man's letters, or his conversation, without hi* consent, is not, in my opinion, quite fair : for how many things, in the hour of relaxation, or... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 406 pages
...dropp'd ten thousand fathom deep. CXXVII. TO ROBERT ARBUTHNOT, ESQ. Aberdeen, s6th November, I785. Mr. BOSWELL'S book* is arrived at last, and I have...correspondence, does a man throw out, which he would never wish lo hear of again ; and what a restraint would it be on all social intercourse, if one. were to suppose... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 366 pages
...translation of Pope's " Messiah." 433. Boswell's " Tour." I have just gone through Boswell's book. He is very good to me, as Dr. Johnson always was ;...man throw out, which he would never wish to hear of again ; and what a restraint would it be on all social intercourse, if one were to suppose that every... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pages
...his translation of Pope's " Messiah." 433. BosvceWs " Tour." I have just gone through Boswell's book. He is very good to me, as Dr. Johnson always was ;...man throw out, which he would never wish to hear of again ; and what a restraint would it be on all social intercourse, if one were to suppose that every... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 546 pages
...however, he never was, as may be seen by his translation of Pope's " Messiah." 433. BoswelPs "Tour." grateful to both: but I cannot approve the plan of...man throw out, which he would never wish to hear of again; and what a restraint would it be on all social intercourse, if one were to suppose that every... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 544 pages
...however, he never was, as may be seen by his translation of Pope's " Messiah." 433. BoswelVs "Tour." grateful to both: but I cannot approve the plan of...man throw out, which he would never wish to hear of again; and what a restraint would it be on all social intercourse, if one were to suppose that every... | |
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Boswell's book is arrived at last, and I have just gone through it. He is very good to me, as Dr Johnson always was; and I am very grateful to both. But I cannot approve the plan of such a work. To publish a man's letters, or his conversation, without... 