 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 str.
...reason ; the fact was too recent, and those who had been heated in the contention were not yet cool. The necessity of complying with times and of sparing...growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever. What is known can seldom be immediately told; and when it might be told, it is no longer known.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1811 - 622 str.
...monuments and words: but lives can only- be ' written from personal knowledge, which i? growing everyday less, ' and in a short time is lost for ever. What is know u can seldom ' be imnuxliately told ; and when it might be told, it is no longer ' knoun. '] hedi'lK-.ik-... | |
 | John Nichols, Samuel Bentley - 1812 - 764 str.
...evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition -f- ;" and " Lives can only be written from personal knowledge,...a short time is lost for ever. What is known, can seldoin be immediately told; and when it might be told, it is no longer known ;£." I had once an intention... | |
 | Alexander Maxwell (bookseller.) - 1817 - 240 str.
...compelled to write biography. Dr. Johnson has justly observed, " The necessity of complying with the times, and of sparing persons, is the great impediment...-day less, and in a short time is lost for ever." be often fails, because we see all light and no shade ; the beauty and the harmony of nature is altogether... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 416 str.
...reason ; the fact was too recent, and those who had been heated in the contention were not yet cool. The necessity of complying with times, and of sparing...from personal knowledge, which is growing every day lees, and in a short time is lost for ever. What is known can seldom be immediately told ; and when... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1821 - 372 str.
...moralist and ablest delineator of characters of the last century : — Dr. Johnson observes, that " the necessity of complying with times, and of sparing persons, is the great impediment of hiography. History may be formed from permanent monuments and records ; but lives can only be written... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 304 str.
...reason; the fact was too recent, and those who had been heated in the contention were not yet cool. The necessity of complying with times, and of sparing...'for ever. What is known can seldom be immediately (old ; and when it might be told, it is no longer known. The delicate features of the mind, the nice... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 str.
...reason ; the fact was too recent, and those who had been heated in the contention were not yet cool. The necessity of complying with times, and of sparing...lives can only be written from personal knowledge, ~ i • T -....-._,. ._-_— —— -*•• - — 3J-"* which is growing_every__dayTess, TaruTin a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 str.
...reason : the fact was too recent, and those who had been heated in the contention were not yet cool. The necessity of complying with times, and of sparing...may be formed from permanent monuments and records ; C but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in... | |
 | 1826 - 126 str.
...the ablest delineators of characters of the last century.—He says, " The necessity of contplying with times, and of sparing persons, is the great impediment...history may be formed from permanent monuments and reords; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and... | |
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History may be formed from permanent monuments and records ; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever. 
