 I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. For, not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, to whom his mistakes...  The British Essayists;: Rambler - Էջ 34Alexander Chalmers - 1808Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1750 - 228 էջ
...motions of armies, and the fchemes of confpirators. I have often thought, that there has rarely pafped a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be ufeful. For not only every man has in. the mighty mafs of the world great numbers in the fame condition... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1761 - 468 էջ
...SWIFT, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin. A Late writer juflly obfcrves, that " there has " rarely pailed a life of which a judicious and " faithful narrative would not be ufeful. For" (adds he) " not only every man has, in the mighty mafs " of the world, great numbers in... | |
 | 1785 - 596 էջ
...motions of armies, and the fchemes of conipirators. I have often thought that there has rarely paflfed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be ufcful. For not only every man has, in the mighty mafs of the world, great numbers in the fame condition... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...motions of armies, and the fchemes of confpirators. I have often thought that there has rarely pafTed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be ufeful. For, not only every man has, in the mighty mafs of the world, great numbers in the fame condition... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 էջ
...motions of armies, and the fchemes of confpirators. I have often thought that there has rarely pafled a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be ufeful. For, not only every man has, in the mighty mafs of the world, great numbers in the fame condition... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 էջ
...widely diffuse instruction to every diversity of condition.' Hence Johnson infers, that there has, rarely passed a life, of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. The fa&s which constitute the excellence of biography are of an evanescent kind, and rarely transmitted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 էջ
...motions of armies, and the fchemes of confpirators. I have often thought that there has rarely pafled a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be ufeful. For, not only every man has, in the mighty mafs of the world, great numbers in the fame condition... | |
 | 1803 - 290 էջ
...senates, the motions of armies, and the schemes of conspirators. I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful...state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill but is common... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 էջ
...distrest, And hissing Infamy proclaims the rest. Vanity of Human Wifhej. BIOGRAPHY. There has, perhaps, rarely passed a life, of which a judicious and faithful...great numbers in the same condition with himself, te whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate, and apparent... | |
 | 1806 - 346 էջ
...senates, the motions of armies, and the schemes of conspirators. I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful...same condition with himself to whom his mistakes and miscarrages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use ; but there is such an... | |
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