 | 1750 - Počet stránok 228
...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...fame condition with himfelf, to whom his miftakes and mifcarrtageSj efcapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent nfe ; but there is fuch an... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1761 - Počet stránok 468
...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 the fame condition... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1763 - Počet stránok 292
...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...ufeful. For, not only every man has, in the mighty mals of. the world, great numbers in the fame condition with himfelf, to whom his miftakes and mifcarriages,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1784 - Počet stránok 372
...motions of armies, and the fchemes of confpirators. I have often thought that there has rarely parted a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative...with himfelf, to whom. his miftakes and mifcarriages, efcapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent ufe ; but there is fuch an uniformity in... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1784 - Počet stránok 470
...pafled a life, of which a ju" dicious 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 the fame condition with him" felf, to whom his miftakes and mifcarriages, " cfcapes and expedients, would be of immedi" ate... | |
 | 1785 - Počet stránok 596
...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 - Počet stránok 466
...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...with himfelf, to whom his miftakes and mifcarriages, efcapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent ufe ; but there is fuch an uniformity in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - Počet stránok 582
...judicious and fsithful narrative would not be u(cful. Foniqt only every mari has, in the mighty inafs of the world, great numbers in the fame condition with himfelf, to whom his mifiakes and mifcarriages, efcapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent ufe; but there... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - Počet stránok 502
...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... | |
 | 1801 - Počet stránok 326
...motions of armies, and the fchemes of confpirators. I have often thought that there has rarely paffed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be ufefdL For, not only every man has, in the mighty mafs of the world, great numbers in the fame condition... | |
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I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. 
