 | 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 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 - 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... | |
 | 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 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
...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... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - Počet stránok 502
...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 - Počet stránok 460
...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - Počet stránok 520
...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - Počet stránok 530
...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - Počet stránok 524
...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... | |
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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. 
