 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...give much instruction or delight, and why most accounts of particular persons are barren and useless. If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at...rarely transmitted by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 pages
...give much instruction or delight, and why most accounts of particular persons are barren and useless. If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at...end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect VOL. IV. Cc " little little intelligence ; fof the incidents which give excellence to biography are... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1811 - 346 pages
...why most accounts of particular persons are barren and useless. If a life be delayed till interest or envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality,...evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are E 2 rarely transmitted by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...give much instruction or delight, and why most accounts of particular persons are barren and useless. If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, •we may hope for impartiality, hut must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 352 pages
...why most accounts of particular persons are barren and useless. If a life be delayed till interest or envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality,...rarely transmitted by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and the... | |
 | John Nichols, Samuel Bentley - Authors, English - 1812 - 748 pages
...single circumstance of private persons, though of eminence in letters, except the date of their death. " The incidents which give excellence to biography are...the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition *J- ;" and " Lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1812 - 748 pages
...single circumstance of private persons, though of eminence in letters, except the date of their death. " The incidents which give excellence to biography are...the memory, and are rarely trans'mitted by tradition -f- ;** and " Lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1812 - 746 pages
...single circumstance of private persons, though of eminence in letters,, except the date of their death. "The incidents which give excellence to biography...volatile and evanescent kind, su,ch as soon escape (i* t\ ' ^J Vl£i . _..'•'.. f „*„ "* •. " the .memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 524 pages
...give much instruction or delight, and why most accounts of particular persons are barren and useless. If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at...rarely transmitted by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 462 pages
...give much instruction or delight, and why most accounts of particular persons are barren and useless. If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at...rarely transmitted by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and the... | |
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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, and... 
