...same strain, Johnson, in the Rambler,3 added the weight of his authority, and made this assertion : " I have often thought that there has rarely passed...judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful." Acting upon this principle, Johnson had, in 1744, given to the world the Life of Savage, one of the...

...Johnson argued that the life of the ordinary person best reveals the vicissitudes of human nature: 'There has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.' He continued, 'We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same 5 Rousseau, Confessions,...

...selecting and placing every ingredient, all to add up to the portrait they want. SELECTING THE SUBJECT "There has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful," wrote Samuel Johnson. 3 I have to say right here, as undemocratic as it may sound, that I don't agree...

...management of things which nothing but their frequency makes considerable, Parva si non fiant quotidie, says Pliny, and which can have no place in those relations which never descend below the consultation of the senates, the motions of armies, and the schemes of conspirators. (Ibid., pp. 319-320) There are...

...Representation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995). 41. Samuel Johnson, Rambler, no. 60: "l have often thought that there has rarely passed a...judicious and faithful Narrative would not be useful." ln Tillotson, et al., Eighteenth-Century Literature, 986. easy enough to get legitimately; it was easier...

...accurately and configure intelligibly, imaginatively, sympathetically, and usefully the life of another: "I have often thought that there has rarely passed...judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful" (Rambler 60, in, ^10). To imagine Johnson in conversation, in addition to reading his writings on this...

...management of things which nothing but their frequency makes considerable, Parva, si non fiant quotidie, says Pliny, and which can have no place in those relations...motions of armies, and the schemes of conspirators. '8 Boswell, Life of Johnson (l976 ed.), 30l; James Boswell, London Journal, l762-l763, ed. Frederick...

...idea can be found earlier, as in Dr. Samuel Johnson's ([1750] 1953, p. 133) comment in The Rambler: "I have often thought that there has rarely passed...judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful." 31. 1 also found few descriptions of the physical appearance of the autobiographers unless they differed...

...idea can be found earlier, as in Dr. Samuel Johnson's ([1750] 1953, p. 133) comment in The Rambler:"l have often thought that there has rarely passed a...judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful." 31. 1 also found few descriptions of the physical appearance of the autobiographers unless they differed...

...London: Falmer Press. pp. 75..88. 27 The Call of Life Stories in Ethnographic Research KEN PLUMMER l have often thought that there has rarely passed a...judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful ... (Samuel Jobnson. c. l760l We are safe in saying that personal life records. as complete as possible....