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 himself, to whom his... The Christian's Magazine - Página 3051810Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 páginas
...conduct of kings or the conquest of empires. " I have often thought," remarks our great moralist, " that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful ;" * and indeed all that is wanting to render, any Bfe useful is, on the acquisition of facts, to draw... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 páginas
...conduct, of kings or the conquest of empires. " I have often thought," remarks our great moralist, " that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;"* and indeed all that is wanting to render any life useful is, on the acquisition of facts, to draw such... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 páginas
...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...with himself, to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use; but there is such an... | |
| 1810 - 464 páginas
...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...same, condition with himself, to whom his mistakes andj miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use ; but there is such... | |
| Alexander Henderson - 1810 - 382 páginas
...all ought to imitate, is that to which all may attain. The writer therefore agrees with Dr. Johnson, "that there has " rarely passed a life of which a...judicious and " faithful narrative would not be useful:" and he is also of opinion, that the private lives of some persons, such as Mr. Stevens was, belong,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 346 páginas
...consultations 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...apparent use ; but there is such an uniformity in the suite of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there... | |
| 1811 - 566 páginas
...before have been read with pleasure by every scholar. / I have often thought,' says Dr. Johnson, ' that there has rarely passed a life, of which a judicious and faithful narrative might not be useful.' The observation might be made with still greater propriety of self-biography.... | |
| 1815 - 444 páginas
...opinion of one, whose profound judgment should command, as indeed it is always entitled to, respect, that there has rarely passed a life, of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be prodnctive of good. To record the praises of departed excellence — to exhihit whatever was eminently... | |
| 1815 - 930 páginas
...ourselves." It was, doubtless, this sentiment which induced Dr. Johnson to say, " That there has scarcely passed a life, of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not have be^n useful." With whatever ardor we may peruse memoirs of kings and her >es of those who have... | |
| Charlotte Brooke - 1816 - 616 páginas
...force, and duration." It is remarked by our celebrated moralist, Dr. Johnson, " That there has scarcely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not have been useful." If such a remark is generally applicable, much more is it appropriate to persons... | |
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