 | Abraham Hayward - 1873 - 448 страници
...pamphlet will afford 1 'He said, "The value of every story depends on its being true. A story is a picture of an individual, or of human nature in general : if it be false, it is a picture of nothing." ' — Boewell's ' Life of Johnson.' 9 'Historic Doubts relative to Napoleon Buonaparte.' Seventeenth... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1873 - 452 страници
...will afford 1 ' He said, " The value of every story depends on its being true. A story is a picture of an individual, or of human nature in general: if it be false, it is a picture of nothing."'—Boswell's ' Life of Johnson.' a ' Historic Doubts relative to Napoleon Buonaparte.' Seventeenth... | |
 | 1875 - 630 страници
...had been carried through. ' The value of every story depends on its being true. A story is a picture of an individual, or of human nature in general: if it be false, it is a picture of nothing.' This was a favourite axiom of Johnson's, which seems to have had no weight with. Greville or Mr. Reeve... | |
 | 1875 - 844 страници
...had been carried through. "The value of every story depends on its being true. A story is a picture of an individual, or of human nature in general : if it be false, it is a picture of nothing." This was a favourite axiom of Johnson's, which seems to have had no weight with Greville or Mr. Reeve... | |
 | 1875 - 632 страници
...had been carried through. ' The value of every story depends on its being true. A storv is a picture of an individual, or of human nature in general : if it be false, it is a picture of nothing.' This was a favourite axiom of Johnson's, which seems to have had no weight with Greville or Mr. Reeve... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1878 - 482 страници
...separated from the 1 ' He said, " The value of every story depends on its being true. A story is a picture of an individual, or of human nature in general : if it be false, it is a picture of nothing." '— Boswell's Life of JoKmon. dross ? How are the genuine pearls to be infallibly distinguished from... | |
 | sir John Bowring - 1879 - 626 страници
...'' that Johnson once said, 'The value of every story depends on its being true. A story is a picture of an individual or of human nature in general: if it be false, it is a picture of nothing.'" This is equally true of reports of conversations. Are we, then, adopting Mr. Hay ward's classification,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 512 страници
...them ; and that redress ought in such cases to be given. He said, ' The value of every story depends on its being true. A story is a picture either of...would believe ; but it would be a picture of nothing. *******2 (naming a worthy friend of ours,) used to think a story, a story, till I shewed him that truth... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 страници
...not know because they have never deceived us. idler, NO. ta. Truth: THE value of every story depends on its being true. A story is a picture either of...would believe ; but it would be a picture of nothing. Boswell's Life of Johnson, ii. 433. ' " A STORY," says Johnson, " is a specimen of human manners, and... | |
 | 1875 - 880 страници
...had been carried through. "The value of every story depends on its being true. A story is a picture of an individual, or of human nature in general : if it be false, it is a picture of nothing." This was a favourite axiom of Johnson's, which seems to have had no weight with Greville or Mr. Reeve:... | |
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The value of every story depends on its being true. A story is a picture either of an individual or of human nature in general: if it be false, it is a picture of nothing. 
