 | James Boswell - 2008 - 1024 pages
...might have deterred me for ever from making any further attempts. Fortunately, however, I remained upon the field not wholly discomfited; and was soon rewarded by hearing some of his conversation, ot which I preserved the following short minute, without marking the questions and observations by... | |
 | Henry Arthur Treble - 1930 - 270 pages
...might have deterred me for ever from making any further attempts. Fortunately, however, I remained upon the field not wholly discomfited; and was soon...barbarous society, superiority of parts is of real consequence. Great strength or great wisdom is of much value to an individual. But in more polished... | |
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... that the hope which I had long indulged of obtaining his acquaintance was blasted. And, in truth, had not my ardour been uncommonly strong, and my resolution uncommonly persevering, so rough a reception might have deterred me for ever from making... 
