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 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 424 pages
...management of things, which nothing but their frequency makes considerable, Parva si non fiunt quotidie, says Pliny, and which can have no place in those relations...often thought that there has rarely passed a life of I which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.* For, not only every man has, in the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 pages
...management of things, which nothing but their frequence makes considerable, Parua si non fiunt quotidie, says Pliny, and which can have no place in those relations...motions of armies, and the schemes of conspirators. Rambler, NO. 60. K z THERE Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Jolmsou. Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson. THERE... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1889 - 524 pages
...biography when rightly done could be futile. That rare old biographer Johnson has left his opinion that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative WQuld not be useful. " For not only every man ", he wrote, " has in the mighty mass of the world great... | |
 | Warren Richardson - 1892 - 354 pages
...narrative writing, that which is most eagerly read and most easily applied to the purposes of life. ... I have often thought that there has rarely passed...judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful." — Dr. Johnson. " The lessons of life make deeper impressions than the lessons of books, because they... | |
 | Henry Francis Brownson - 1898 - 576 pages
...5.53 BROWNSON'S EARLY LIFE. CHAPTER I. CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH. "I HAVE often thought," says Dr. Johnson, "that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative might not be useful." It may be added that the usefulness of the narrative becomes greater in proportion... | |
 | Stapleton Martin - 1903 - 326 pages
...competent to translate them. BRIAN DUPPA, BISHOP OF WINCHESTER (1588-1662). " There has perhaps never passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful." DR JOHNSON. His father was by repute Vicar of Lewisham in Kent, where he was born. He was educated... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...of things, which nothing but their frequency makes considerable — ' Parva si non flant quotidie,' says Pliny — and which can have no place in those...consultation of senates, the motions of armies, and the 15 schemes of conspirators. I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious... | |
 | John Licinius Everett Peck, Otto Hillock Montzheimer, William J. Miller - 1914 - 874 pages
...JOHN BOBZINE. It was once remarked by a celebrated moralist and biographer that "there has scarcely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not have been useful." Believing in the truth of this opinion, expressed by one of the greatest and best... | |
 | 1914 - 890 pages
...ALBERT HAMER. It was once remarked by a celebrated moralist and biographer that "there has scarcely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not have been useful." Believing in the truth of this opinion, expressed by one of the greatest and best... | |
 | John Licinius Everett Peck, Otto Hillock Montzheimer, William J. Miller - 1914 - 844 pages
...JOHN BOBZINE. It was once remarked by a celebrated moralist and biographer thai "there has scarcely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not have been useful." Believing in the truth of this opinion, expressed by one of the greatest and best... | |
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