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" If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory,... "
The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]. - Página 62
1750
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British Biography; Or, An Accurate and Impartial Account of the Lives and ...

Joseph Towers - 1773 - 498 páginas
...however diligently fought, are not always to be found. " The incidents," fays an ingenious writer, " which give excellence to Biography, " are of a volatile and evanefcent kind, fut h as foon " efcape the memory, and are rarely tranfmitted by (" tradition." Jt may alio be obferved,...
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The Rambler: In Four Volumes, Volumen2

Samuel Johnson - 1784 - 372 páginas
...life be delayed till iutcieft and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but muft expect: little intelligence; for the incidents which give...rarely tranfmitted by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by bis moft prominent and obfervable particularities, and the...
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The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 páginas
...life be delayed till intereft and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but muft expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give...rarely tranfmitted by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his moft prominent and obfervable particularities, and the...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...intereft and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but muft expect VOL. V. C c little lirtlc intelligence; for the incidents which give excellence...kind, fuch as foon efcape the memory, and are rarely tranfinkted by tradition. ,We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his moft prominent...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 páginas
...life be delayed till intereft and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but mull expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give...rarely tranfmitted by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his moft prominent and obfervable particularities, and the...
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The Rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 páginas
...end, we may hope for impartiality, but mufl c\pcft little intelligence ; for the incidents S * which which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanefcent kind, fuch as foonefcaptthe memory, and are rarely trinfmitted by tradition. We know how few can povirtray a living...
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A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an ... Account of the ...

1793 - 412 páginas
...Incidents of an interefting and characteriftic kind, however diligently fought, are not always to be found. The incidents, •which give excellence to Biography,...the memory, and are rarely tranfmitted by tradition. It may alfo be obferved, that there are many particulars and circumihnces, which, though of too general...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ...

James Boswell - 1799 - 496 páginas
...life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are transmitted by tradition. We know how few...
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Volumen1

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 páginas
...life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, 'and are transmitted 2 by tradition. We know how few...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volumen1

James Boswell - 1799 - 640 páginas
...life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, "and are transmitted8 by tradition. We know how few...
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