| 1750 - 228 páginas
...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 - 1761 - 468 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 - 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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| 1803 - 290 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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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