 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 296 pages
...consultation of senates, the 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 with... | |
 | 1889 - 570 pages
...biography when rightly done 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 the same... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1889 - 524 pages
...biography when rightly done 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 WQuld not be useful. " For not only every man ", he wrote, " has in the mighty mass of the world great... | |
 | Warren Richardson - 1892 - 354 pages
...which is most eagerly read and 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, because they... | |
 | Henry Francis Brownson - 1898 - 576 pages
...5.53 BROWNSON'S EARLY LIFE. CHAPTER I. CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH. "I HAVE often thought," says Dr. Johnson, "that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative might not be useful." It may be added that the usefulness of the narrative becomes greater in proportion... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 pages
...consultation of senates, the 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 with... | |
 | Stapleton Martin - 1903 - 326 pages
...competent 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 educated... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...consultation of senates, the 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 2(P condition... | |
 | George Lyman Kittredge, Frank Edgar Farley - 1913 - 360 pages
...have avoided it. 7. Promise 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 that he... | |
 | 1914 - 890 pages
...ALBERT HAMER. It was once remarked by a celebrated moralist and biographer that "there has scarcely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not have been useful." Believing in the truth of this opinion, expressed by one of the greatest and best... | |
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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. 
