 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...useless. 5 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...kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transl0mitted by tradition. We know how few can portray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 602 pages
...useless. If a life be dejayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence; for the incidents...evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are transmitted by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent... | |
 | Reginald Lucas - 1913 - 436 pages
...hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give interest to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind,...memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition." ' I have, however, already a sheaf or two of tolerable gleanings, and your brother, in the conversation... | |
 | Reginald Lucas - 1913 - 436 pages
...hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give interest to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind,...memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition." ' I have, however, already a sheaf or two of tolerable gleanings, and your brother, in the conversation... | |
 | 1843 - 1098 pages
...justly observed by Dr. Johnson, in his Life of Addison, that " the incidents which give excellency to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and arc rarely transmitted by tradition. Lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing... | |
 | Waldo Hilary Dunn - 1916 - 354 pages
...useless. Tf a life be delayed till interest and envy are at end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence; for the incidents...evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are transmitted by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent... | |
 | Oscar W. Firkins - 1920 - 272 pages
...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 pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable peculiarities, and the... | |
 | Pieter Cornelis Schoonees - 1922 - 362 pages
...nie : „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...evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are transmitted by tradition." 2) Dit is juis dié soort insidente wat Totius, blykbaar met opset verwaarloos... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1927 - 418 pages
...till interest and envy are at an end," he wrote in the Rambler, " we may hope for impartiality but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents...the memory and are rarely transmitted by tradition." Moreover, one may add, every year that passes after a man's death diminishes the number of friends... | |
 | Pieter Cornelis Schoonees - 1927 - 400 pages
...nie: „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...evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are transmitted by tradition." 2) Dit is juis dié soort insidente wat Totius, blykbaar met opset verwaarloos... | |
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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, and... 
