 | John Licinius Everett Peck, Otto Hillock Montzheimer, William J. Miller - 1914 - 844 pages
...JOHN BOBZINE. It was once remarked by a celebrated moralist and biographer thai "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... | |
 | John Licinius Everett Peck, Otto Hillock Montzheimer, William J. Miller - 1914 - 874 pages
...JOHN BOBZINE. 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 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... | |
 | Alan R. Burger, Hyman R. Cohen, David H. DeGrood - 1980 - 308 pages
...risks: How do we know when we 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 with... | |
 | Ann Messenger - 1986 - 208 pages
...and come to know something about the characteristic, distinctive, or peculiar. But if Johnson thought "that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful" (Rambler 60), he also knew that "the greater part of mankind 'have no character at all/ have little... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 pages
...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,... | |
 | Molly Andrews - 1991 - 248 pages
...reminded here of a quote of Samuel Johnson, who was himself the subject of a very famous biography : 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... | |
 | Helen Benedict - 1992 - 204 pages
...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... | |
 | Miguel Tamen - 1993 - 240 pages
...grounding of a discourse on the particular could be called a political argument: "I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful...there is such an uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable... | |
 | David Lyle Jeffrey - 1996 - 420 pages
...(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995). 41. Samuel Johnson, Rambler, no. 60: "l have often thought that there has rarely passed a Life of which 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... | |
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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. 
