 | 1750 - 228 pages
...motions of armies, and the fchemes of confpirators. I have often thought, that there has rarely pafped a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be ufeful. For not only every man has in. the mighty mafs of the world great numbers in the fame condition... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - English literature - 1761 - 468 pages
...SWIFT, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin. A Late writer juflly obfcrves, that " there has " rarely pailed a life of which a judicious and " faithful narrative would not be ufeful. For" (adds he) " not only every man has, in the mighty mafs " of the world, great numbers in... | |
 | 1785 - 596 pages
...motions of armies, and the fchemes of conipirators. I have often thought that there has rarely paflfed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be ufcful. For not only every man has, in the mighty mafs of the world, great numbers in the fame condition... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787
...motions of armies, and the fchemes of confpirators. I have often thought that there has rarely pafTed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be ufeful. For, not only every man has, in the mighty mafs of the world, great numbers in the fame condition... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pages
...motions of armies, and the fchemes of confpirators. I have often thought that there has rarely pafled a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be ufeful. For, not only every man has, in the mighty mafs of the world, great numbers in the fame condition... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 pages
...interest, or more widely diffuse instruction to every diversity of condition.' Hence Johnson infers, that there has, rarely passed a life, of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. The fa&s which constitute the excellence of biography are of an evanescent kind, and rarely transmitted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pages
...motions of armies, and the fchemes of confpirators. I have often thought that there has rarely pafled a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be ufeful. For, not only every man has, in the mighty mafs of the world, great numbers in the fame condition... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 290 pages
...descend below the consultation of senates, the motions of armies, and the schemes of conspirators. I have often thought that there has rarely passed...would be of immediate and apparent use ; but there is such an uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...distrest, And hissing Infamy proclaims the rest. Vanity of Human Wifhej. BIOGRAPHY. There has, perhaps, rarely passed a life, of which a judicious and faithful...great numbers in the same condition with himself, te whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate, and apparent... | |
 | 1806 - 346 pages
...below the consultation VoL. II. E of senates, the motions of armies, and the schemes of conspirators. I have often thought that there has rarely passed...same condition with himself to whom his mistakes and miscarrages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use ; but there is such an... | |
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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. For, not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, to whom his mistakes... 
