 | 1889 - 570 pages
...could be futile. That rare old biographer Johnson has left his opinion that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. " For not only every man ", he wrote, " has in the mighty mass of the world great numbers in... | |
 | Warren Richardson - 1892 - 354 pages
...most easily applied to the purposes of life. ... I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful." — Dr. Johnson. " The lessons of life make deeper impressions than the lessons of books,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 pages
...motions of armies, and the schemes of conspirators. I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. For, not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition... | |
 | Stapleton Martin - 1903 - 326 pages
...to translate them. BRIAN DUPPA, BISHOP OF WINCHESTER (1588-1662). " There has perhaps never passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful." DR JOHNSON. His father was by repute Vicar of Lewisham in Kent, where he was born. He was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...motions of armies, and the 15 schemes of conspirators. I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. For, not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same 20... | |
 | George Lyman Kittredge, Frank Edgar Farley - 1913 - 394 pages
...you will give him this little book of drawings. 8. I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. — JOHNSON. 9. She said, very quietly, that she wished to speak to him after breakfast, and... | |
 | Waldo Hilary Dunn - 1916 - 354 pages
...eighteenth. In point of fact, Johnson not only vindicated his statement that " there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful " — a dictum, by the way, thoroughly accepted ever since it was uttered — he produced a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 pages
...motions of armies, and the schemes of conspirators. I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. For, not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition... | |
 | Alan R. Burger, Hyman R. Cohen, David H. DeGrood - 1980 - 308 pages
...know? How do we choose 11. Eg, Rambler, No. 60: "I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. For, not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 pages
...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,... | |
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I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. 
