 | 1750 - 228 str.
...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 - 468 str.
...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 - 596 str.
...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
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 str.
...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... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 str.
...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 - 460 str.
...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... | |
 | 1806 - 346 str.
...of things, which nothing but their frequency makes considerable, Parva si non jiunt quotidie, iays Pliny, and which can have no place in those relations which never descend below the consultation VoL. II. E of senates, the motions of armies, and the schemes of conspirators. I have often thought... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 str.
...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 - 524 str.
...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. 
