...ourselves, we thought there was a propriety in placing on the title page the words of Dr. Johnson, ' I have often thought that there has rarely passed...judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.' The subject of this narrative seems to have been a pious and laborious minister of the gospel in connexion...

...adapted to persons of all grades of intellect. Dr Johnson somewhere observes, that ' there has perhaps rarely passed a life, of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful ;' and a still higher authority has a remark to this effect— that the moral history of a beggar,...

...composed with more art, but dictated by less sincerity. It has been well observed by Doctor Johnson, " that there has rarely passed a life, of which a judicious and authentic narrative would not be useful ; " and perhaps this will not be thought the exception. And...

...altogether judicious, it is at least authentic, and I am willing to believe, that Dr. Johnson's remark, that " there has rarely passed a life, of which a judicious and authentic VI PREFACE. narrative would not be useful," may be favourably applied to the following pages,...

...more competent to write his own life, provided he is a literary man, than another is to do it for him. There has rarely passed a life, of which a judicious and faithful Narrative would not be useful." 1)в. JOHNSON. ILLUSTRATED WITH COPPER-PLATE ENGRAVINGS. PROVIDENCE GROVE, NEAR SHREWSBURY: PRINTED...

...from the right or wrong management of things, which nothing but their frequency makes considerable, and which can have no place in those relations which never descend below the consultation «f senates, the motions of armies, and the schemes of conspirators. I have often thought that there...

...uttering an earnest voice to deter or pereuade." In like manner, Johnson, while expressing an opinion that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful, remarks respecting those who • Memorial! of the Her. William Crook, Ute Senior Minister of the Irish...

...Christian, who served his country and his God with equal fidelity. If the remark of Dr. Johnson be true that " there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and authentic narrative would not be useful," it is believed that the story of the career of Isaac Hull...

...whose practice accorded with the precepts of the religion which he professed. Dr. Johnson has observed that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful, and that if it is objected to the relations of particular lives that they are not distinguished by...

...— " Will be both noisome and infectious." — Cymbeline. Clarence If.— Yes. Dr. Johnson says, " I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative might not be useful." JT. Jf. n., Bristol.— " Good unexpected— evil unforeseen, Appear by turns,...