 | 1750 - 228 pages
...improperly and barbaroufly of the phrafe Noble Gentleman, becaufe either word included the fenfe of both. There are indeed fome natural reafons why thefe narratives...are barren and ufelefs. If a life be delayed till all intereft and envy are at an end, and all motives to calumny or flattery are fupprefled, we may... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1784 - 372 pages
...improperly and barbarou..y ot the phraie noil Gentleman, oceanic eitiier word included the fenfe of both. There are, indeed, fome natural reafons why thefe narratives are often written by lucii as were not likely to give much inllrucuon or delight, and why moft accounts of particular perions... | |
 | 1785 - 596 pages
...why mod accounts of particular, psrfons are barren and ufelefs. If a life be delayed till interclt and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but muft ex-, peel little intelligence; for the incidents S i which which give excellence to biography are of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pages
...improperly and barbaroufly of the phrafe noble Gentleman, becaufe either word included the fenfe of both. There are, indeed, fome natural reafons why thefe...moft accounts of particular perfons are barren and ulelefs. If a life be delayed till intereft and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...improperly and barbaroufly of the phrafe noble Gentleman, becaufe either word included the fenfe of both. There are, indeed, fome natural reafons why thefe...often written by fuch as were not likely to give much inftru&ion or delight, and why moft accounts of particular perfons are barren and ufelefs. If a life... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 pages
...improperly and barbaroufly of the phrafe noble Gentleman, becaufe either word included the fenfe of both. There are, indeed, fome natural reafons why thefe...envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but mull expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 pages
...why moft accounts of particular perlbns aro barren and ufelefs. If a life be delayed till in'.^reft and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but mufl c\pcft little intelligence ; for the incidents S * which which give excellence to biography are... | |
 | 1795 - 612 pages
...appearance of this biographical preface. " If (as Juhnfon remarks in oneof his Ramblers) alifebedelayed till intereft and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but we muft expe£l little intelligence;" and though, as he alfo remarks in the fame paper, the biographer... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1795 - 614 pages
...biographical preface. *' If (as Juhnfon remarks in oneof his Ramblers) alifebedelayed, till intereli and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but MC mult expeft little intelligence;" and though, as he alloremarks in the fame paper, the biographer... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1795 - 614 pages
...biographical preface. *' If (as Juhnfon remarks in oneof his Ramblers) alifebedelayed, till intereli and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but MC mult expeft little intelligence;" and though, as he alloremarks in the fame paper, the biographer... | |
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If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory,... 
