...conduct of kings or the conquest of empires. " I have often thought," remarks our great moralist, " that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful ;" * and indeed all that is wanting to render any life useful is, on the acquisition of facts, to draw...

...conduct, of kings or the conquest of empires. " I have often thought," remarks our great moralist, " that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;"* and indeed all that is wanting to render any life useful is, on the acquisition of facts, to draw such...

...descend below the consultation of senates, the motions of armies, and the schemes of conspirators. I have often thought that there has rarely passed...with himself, to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use; but there is such an...

...descend below the consultation of senates, the motions of armies, and the schemes of conspirators. I have often thought that there has rarely passed...same, condition with himself, to whom his mistakes andj miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use ; but there is such...

...all ought to imitate, is that to which all may attain. The writer therefore agrees with Dr. Johnson, "that there has " rarely passed a life of which a...judicious and " faithful narrative would not be useful:" and he is also of opinion, that the private lives of some persons, such as Mr. Stevens was, belong,...

...descend below the consultations of senates, the motions of armies, and the schemes of conspirators. I have often thought that there has rarely passed...apparent use ; but there is such an uniformity in the suite of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there...

...before have been read with pleasure by every scholar. / I have often thought,' says Dr. Johnson, ' that there has rarely passed a life, of which a judicious and faithful narrative might not be useful.' The observation might be made with still greater propriety of self-biography....

...opinion of one, whose profound judgment should command, as indeed it is always entitled to, respect, that there has rarely passed a life, of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be prodnctive of good. To record the praises of departed excellence — to exhihit whatever was eminently...

...ourselves." It was, doubtless, this sentiment which induced Dr. Johnson to say, " That there has scarcely passed a life, of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not have be^n useful." With whatever ardor we may peruse memoirs of kings and her >es of those who have...

...force, and duration." It is remarked by our celebrated moralist, Dr. Johnson, " That there has scarcely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not have been useful." If such a remark is generally applicable, much more is it appropriate to persons...