...useless. If a life be delayed till intcrestandenvy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents...are rarely transmitted by tradition. We know how few canpourtray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and...

...light. " 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...acquaintance except by his most prominent and observable peculiarities, and the grosser features of his mind ; and it may be easily imagined how much of this...

...light. " 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...the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition. Vvre know how few can portray a living acquaintance except by his most prominent and observable peculiarities,...

...science or increase our virtue, are more important than public occurrences. Yet these are passed over. The incidents which give excellence to biography are...the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition, though without mention of these all accounts of particular persons are barren." As Saint-Simon says,...

...writer, " a life be delayed until interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents...memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition." The subject of the notices which have been here condensed into a memoir was a public character both...

...writer, " a life be delayed until interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents...soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tra- . < dition." The subject of the notices which have been here N condensed into a memoir was a public...

...useless. 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...rarely transmitted by tradition. We know how few can potirtray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and the...

...useless. 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...the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition. \Ve know how few can portray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities,...

...useless. 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 volutile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition....

...a life of Dr. Doyle. But Dr. Johnson is of opinion that " the incidents which give excellence to a biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind —...memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition." " Minute particulars," says Boswell, " are frequently characteristic and always amusing, when they...