 | Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 pages
...and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use ; but there is such a uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and 'Separable...of the time of those who are placed at the greatest distances by fortune, or by temper, must unavoidably pass in the same manner ; and though, when the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use ; but there is such an uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there is scarce 25 any possibility of good or ill, but is common to human kind. A great part of the time of those who... | |
 | Hans Meier - 1916 - 124 pages
...deren verständige Darstellung nicht nützlich wäre. There is s ach an uniformity in the state of man, that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill, but is common to human kind.213) Eine Biographie braucht keine auffallenden Ereignisse zu schildern. Der Biograph soll sogar... | |
 | Frede Warburg - 1937 - 78 pages
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 | Samuel Johnson - 1940 - 638 pages
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... 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 mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent... 
