 I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and 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...  The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Rambler - Page ixby Samuel Johnson - 1825Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1803 - 290 pages
...passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. For not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers...possibility of good or ill but is common to human kind. A great part of the time of those who are placed at the greatest distance by fortune, or by temper,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, te whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients,...possibility of good or ill but is common to human kind. Rambler, vol. i, p. 37. The necessity of complying with times, and of sparing persons, is the great... | |
 | 1806 - 346 pages
...of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself to whom his mistakes and miscarrages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and...possibility of good or ill, but is common to human kind. A great part of the time of those who are placed at the greatest distance by fortune, or by temper,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 308 pages
...there is such an uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and sej arable decorations and disguises, that there is scarce any...possibility of good or ill, but is common to human kind. A great part of the time of those who are placed at the greatest distance by fortune, or by temper,... | |
 | 1810 - 464 pages
...mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same, condition with himself, to whom his mistakes andj miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of...possibility of good or ill, but is common to human kind. A great part of the time of those who are placed at the greatest distances by fortune, or by temper,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 pages
...the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of...possibility of good or ill, but is common to human kind. A great part of the time of those who are placed at the greatest distances by fortune, or by temper,... | |
 | Religion - 1810 - 724 pages
...considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, VOL. IH.— No. VI. 2 R that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill, but is common to human kind. We are all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by... | |
 | Religion - 1810 - 722 pages
...considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, VOL. III.— No. VI. 2 R that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill, but is common to human kind. We are all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. For, not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers...possibility of good or ill, but is common to human kind. A great part of the time of those who are placed at the greatest distances by fortune, or by temper,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 394 pages
...passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. For, not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers...possibility of good or ill, but is, common to human kind. A great part of the time of those who are placed at the greatest distances by fortune, or by temper,... | |
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