...papers to a defence of anecdotes, and expresses himself thus on certom collectors of am-cdoies : ' They are not always so happy as to select the most...not well what advantage posterity can receive from ihe only circumstance by which Tick'-ll has distinguished Additon from the rest of mankind, — the...

...their heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied...begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral. " There are, indeed, some natural reasons why these narratives are often written by such as were not...

...Johnson said, that " more knowledge may be gained of a man's character by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from. a formal and studied...begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral." There is something peculiarly humanizing, elevating, and ennobling in Poetry. It refines the taste,...

...knowledge may be gained of a man's real character, by a short conversation with one of his serfants, than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree, and ended with his funeral. " There are, indeed, some natural reasons why these narratives are often written by such as were not...

...Johnson, that often " More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied...begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral." The reader does not need to be reminded that Dr. Doyle had set his heart on the establishment of a...

...their heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character, by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied...begun with his pedigree, and ended with his funeral. " There are, indeed, some natural reasons why these narratives are often written by such as were not...

...their heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied...begun with his pedigree, and ended with his funeral. I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative...

...their heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied...begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral. DR. S. JOHNSON : Rambler, No. 60. The variety and splendour of the lives of such men render it often...

...their heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with re concerned in this, and whether the temper of the...this difference, that in some it retains the charac DR. S. JOHNSON : Rambler, No. 60. The variety and splendour of the lives of such men render it often...

...their heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character, by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied...narrative^ begun with his pedigree, and ended with his Cuneral. " There are, indeed, some natural reasons why these narratives are often written by such as...