 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
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 466 pages
...miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use ; but there is such a uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from...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 must... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...conjectures of the Rumford club c, who fondly imagined themselves to be the only Ridicules in the world. " Not only every man," observes the Rambler, " has in...and errors, and other satirists have derided human follies, yet few have sympathized with the wretched and the 1 This opinion is maintained in the Rambler,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...conjectures of the Rumford club c, who fondly imagined themselves to be the only Ridicules in the world. " Not only every man," observes the Rambler, " has in...and errors, and other satirists have derided human follies, yet few have sympathized with the wretched and the ' This opinion is maintained in the Rambler,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent nse ; but there is such an uniformity in the state of man,...and errors, and other satirists have derided human follies, yet few have sympathized with the wretched and the • This opinion is maintained in the Rambler,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 pages
...and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use, but there is such a uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from...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,... | |
 | 1876 - 818 pages
...which a faithful narrative would not be useful. For all men in essential things are so nearly alike that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill but is common to human kind, and every man is surrounded by a vast number of his fellows to whom his experiences are of immediate... | |
 | Nahum Capen - United States - 1852 - 594 pages
...miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use ; but there is such a uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from...possibility of good or ill but is common to human kind. A great part of those who are placed at the greatest distance by fortune or by temper must unavoidably... | |
 | Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania - 1853 - 472 pages
...his funeral." We have our sympathies with the private life of great men, because " there is scarcely any possibility of good or ill but is common to human kind. " We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1888 - 360 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. Rambur, No. 6o. • • • ' MR. FOWKE once observed to Dr. Johnson that, in his opinion, the Doctor's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 424 pages
...immediate and apparent use; but there is such an uniformity in the state of man, * Note VI., Appendix. considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations...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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