 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...the motions of armies, and the schemes of conspirators. I have often thought that there has rarely les of the will against the understanding. It is not be useful. For, not only every man las, in the mighty mass of the world, great num•ers in the same... | |
 | 1836 - 658 pages
...sorrows, and consequently of common sympathies, Dr. Johnson expresses the opinion, ' that there has rarely passed a life, of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not he useful.' And doubtless almost all personal history, from that of ' the mightiest genius of two thousand... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 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 lias, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 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... | |
 | William Jones - 1842 - 294 pages
...KaX-vv 5taKm<u? 'Irjtrov Kpiffrou.—ST. PAI-L. • • I n A v K often thought that there has rarely passed a life, of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful."—DR. SAMUEL JOHXSOX. LONDON: PUBLISHED BV SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL, STATIONERS'-HALL COURT... | |
 | 1843 - 746 pages
...in placing on the title page the words of Dr. Johnson, ' I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.' The subject of this narrative seems to have been a pious and laborious minister of the... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...persons of all grades of intellect. Dr Johnson somewhere observes, that ' there has perhaps rarely passed a life, of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful ;' and a still higher authority has a remark to this effect— that the moral history of... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - 1852 - 388 pages
...write his own life, provided he is a literary man, than another is to do it for him. There has rarely passed a life, of which a judicious and faithful Narrative would not be useful." 1)в. JOHNSON. ILLUSTRATED WITH COPPER-PLATE ENGRAVINGS. PROVIDENCE GROVE, NEAR SHREWSBURY:... | |
 | Nahum Capen - 1852 - 594 pages
...opinions of that giant thinker, Dr. Johnson, who says : " 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... | |
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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. 
