 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 pages
...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... | |
 | 1803 - 290 pages
...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 narrative would not be useful. For not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...And hissing Infamy proclaims the rest. Vanity of Human Wifhej. BIOGRAPHY. There has, perhaps, 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... | |
 | 1806 - 346 pages
...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 narrative would not be useful. For, not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pages
...the conquest of empires. " I have often thought," remarks our great moralist, " that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful ;" * and indeed all that is wanting to render, any Bfe useful is, on the acquisition of facts,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...the conquest of empires. " I have often thought," remarks our great moralist, " that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;"* and indeed all that is wanting to render any life useful is, on the acquisition of facts,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...the conquest of empires. " I have often thought," remarks our great moralist, " that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful ;" * and indeed all that is wanting to render any life useful is, on the acquisition of facts,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 pages
...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 narrative would not be useful. For, not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same... | |
 | 1810 - 724 pages
...JOHN BAYARD. HAVE often thought," says the celebrated author of the Rambler, " 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... | |
 | 1810 - 722 pages
...EAYABD. " A HAVE often thought," says the celebrated author of the Rambler, " 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... | |
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I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. 
