 | 1750 - 228 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1752 - 328 pages
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 | Jonathan Swift - English literature - 1761 - 468 pages
...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 - 292 pages
...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 - 1772 - 288 pages
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 | Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1784 - 372 pages
...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 - 470 pages
...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 - 596 pages
...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 - 466 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
