...Natur besonders hervor. Jedes Leben ist für Johnson deshalb zunächst einmal biographiewürdig. [...] there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. [...] There is such an uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable...

...management of things, which nothing but their frequency makes considerable, Parva si nonfiant quotidie, says Pliny, and which can have no place in those relations...has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithfnl narrative would not be useful. For, not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world,...

...At Peekham, Surrey, aged 7G, David Seale, esq. If it be true, as IJr. Johnson says in his Rambler, " that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful," it is hopei1 that the following tribute of respect to the memory of a man who, though he trod the private...

...amufement, and excite little intereft; the fentiment of Dr. Johnfon, that ' there has perhaps rarely patted a life, of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be wfeful,' may be taken in too great latitude; we do not fay that Mr. Martin has milunderftood if. He...

...public and private, has ever commanded the love and respect of all who knew him*. Dr. Johnson said, "that there has rarely passed a life, of which a judicious and authentic narrative would not be useful." Now if this axiom be right in a general point of view, how...