| 1750 - 228 pages
...and all motives to calumny or flattery are fupprefled, we may hope for impartiality ; but muft expefl little intelligence : for the incidents which give excellence to biography, are of a volatile and evanefcent kind ; fuch as foon efcape the memory, and are rarely tranfmitted by tradition. We know... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1763 - 292 pages
...why moft accounts of particular perfons are barren and ufelefs. If a life be delayed till intereft and envy are at an end, we may hope for, impartiality, but muft expect little intelligence; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile... | |
| 1785 - 596 pages
...why mod accounts of particular, psrfons are barren and ufelefs. If a life be delayed till interclt and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but muft ex-, peel little intelligence; for the incidents S i which which give excellence to biography... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...why moft accounts of particular perfons are barren and ufelefs. If a life be delayed till intereft and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but muft expect VOL. V. C c little lirtlc intelligence; for the incidents which give excellence to biography... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pages
...why moft accounts of particular perfons are barren and ulelefs. If a life be delayed till intereft and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but muft expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile... | |
| James Boswell - 1791 - 554 pages
...ufelefs. If a life be delayed till intereft and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but muft expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which...give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanefcent kind, fuch as foon efcape the memory, and are tranfmitted by tradition. We know how few... | |
| James Boswell - 1791 - 564 pages
...why moft accounts of particular perfons are barren and ufelefs. If a life be delayed till intereft and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but muft expect little intelligence -, for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 pages
...why moft accounts of particular perfons are barren and ufelefs. If a life be delayed till intereft and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but mull expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile... | |
| 1793 - 412 pages
...Incidents of an interefting and characteriftic kind, however diligently fought, are not always to be found. The incidents, •which give excellence to Biography, are of a volatile and evanefcent kind, fuch as foon efcape the memory, and are rarely tranfmitted by tradition. It may alfo... | |
| 1795 - 612 pages
...biographical preface. " If (as Juhnfon remarks in oneof his Ramblers) alifebedelayed till intereft and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but we muft expe£l little intelligence;" and though, as he alfo remarks in the fame paper, the biographer... | |
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