| Myrtle S. Bolner, Gayle A. Poirier - 2004 - 464 pages
...articles, using the criteria you used for each in Questions 3 and 5 above. 304 Biographical Information "There has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful." Samuel Johnson Introduction A biography is a written history of a person's life and accomplishments.... | |
| Carl Edmund Rollyson - 2005 - 321 pages
...management of things, which nothing but their frequency makes considerable. *" [5] 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... | |
| Stewart Justman - 2006 - 175 pages
...of conspirators" does not much interest the common reader. He goes on to say, "I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful," a principle observed by each of our novelists in one way or another.31 No believer in human equality... | |
| Paul Atkinson - 2007 - 532 pages
...Press, pp. 75-88. 27 The Call of Life Stories in Ethnographic Research KEN PLUMMER I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful ... (Samuel Johnson, c.1760) We are safe in saying that personal life records, as complete as possible,... | |
| Helga Schwalm - 2007 - 422 pages
...Natur besonders hervor. Jedes Leben ist für Johnson deshalb zunächst einmal biographiewürdig. [...] 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... | |
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