...articles, using the criteria you used for each in Questions 3 and 5 above. 304 Biographical Information "There has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful." Samuel Johnson Introduction A biography is a written history of a person's life and accomplishments....

...the right or wrong management of things, which nothing but their frequency makes considerable. *" [5] I have often thought that there has rarely passed...be of immediate and apparent use; but there is such a uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and...

...armies, and the scheme of conspirators" does not much interest the common reader. He goes on to say, "I have often thought that there has rarely passed...judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful," a principle observed by each of our novelists in one way or another.31 No believer in human equality...

...Their 'life studies' would be valuable and should be encouraged. Johnson's dictum should be recalled: that 'there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful'. In Johnson's view, knowledge of 'mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients' are likely to be...

...Narrative. London: Falmer Press, pp. 75-88. 27 The Call of Life Stories in Ethnographic Research KEN PLUMMER I have often thought that there has rarely passed...judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful ... (Samuel Johnson, c.1760) We are safe in saying that personal life records, as complete as possible,...

...Natur besonders hervor. Jedes Leben ist für Johnson deshalb zunächst einmal biographiewürdig. [...] there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. [...] There is such an uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable...

...At Peekham, Surrey, aged 7G, David Seale, esq. If it be true, as IJr. Johnson says in his Rambler, " that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful," it is hopei1 that the following tribute of respect to the memory of a man who, though he trod the private...

...descend below the consultation of senates, the motions of armies, and the schemes of conspirators. I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithfnl narrative would not be useful. For, not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world,...

...public and private, has ever commanded the love and respect of all who knew him*. Dr. Johnson said, "that there has rarely passed a life, of which a judicious and authentic narrative would not be useful." Now if this axiom be right in a general point of view, how...

...amufement, and excite little intereft; the fentiment of Dr. Johnfon, that ' there has perhaps rarely patted a life, of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be wfeful,' may be taken in too great latitude; we do not fay that Mr. Martin has milunderftood if. He...