 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 296 sayfa
...a chronological series of actions or preferments ; and so little regard the manners or behaviour of their heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of...narrative, begun with his pedigree, and ended with his funeral.3 1 " Citus modo, modo tardus incessus."—Cutilinn, ch. 15. a " We talked of biography. JOHNSON.—'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 sayfa
...chronological series of actions or preferments ; and have so little regard to the manners or behaviour of e gave a more eminent proof of it in our "There are, indeed, some natural reasons why these narratives are often written by such as were not... | |
 | Francis Seymour Stevenson - 1893 - 160 sayfa
...chronological series of actions or preferments ; and have so little regard to the manners or behaviour of their heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of...a short conversation with one of his servants than by a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral. ... If a life... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 sayfa
...chronological series of actions or preferments ; and have so little regard to the manners or behaviour of ct p" "There are, indeed, some natural reasons why these narratives are often written by such as were not... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 sayfa
...chronological series of actions or preferments ; and have so little regard to the manners or behaviour of their heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of...begun with his pedigree, and ended with his funeral. " There are, indeed, some natural reasons why these narratives are often written by such as were not... | |
 | William J. Peddicord - 1900 - 214 sayfa
...appreciated; for, says Dr. Johnson, another good hater of Americans,.but whom in many respects we admire, "More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character...begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral." Hence the utility of such inspiring themes when our author's biographer shall take up the impartial... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1900 - 550 sayfa
...yet knew a lady that could not manage my Lord, except my Lady.' " ' More knowledge,' says Johnson, ' may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from the most formal and studied narrative ' " (Moore). 1819.] A FEMALE PROPHET. 319 of us, as he had the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 404 sayfa
...behaviour of their heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character, by a ehort conversation with one of his servants, than from a...begun with his pedigree, and ended with his funeral. ' There are, indeed, some natural reasons why these narratives are often written by such as were not... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 sayfa
...of a man's 1 Plutarch's Life of Alexander, Langhorne's Translation. REPLY TO POSSIBLE OBJECTIONS 23 v ' There are indeed, some natural reasons why these narratives are often written by such as were not... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1922 - 548 sayfa
...knew a lady that could not manage my Lord, except " my Lady.' " ' More knowledge,' says Johnson, ' may be gained of a man's " real character by a short...conversation with one of his servants " than from the most formal and studied narrative ' " (Moore). 1819.] A FEMALE PROPHET. 319 of us, as he had the... | |
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... more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral. 
