 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 254 pàgines
...biography. Hiftory may be formed from permanent monumentsand records;. but Lives can only be £4 writwritten from perfonal knowledge, which is growing every day...ever. What is known can. feldom be immediately told ; aud • when it might be told, it is no longer known. The delicate features of the mind, the nice... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 258 pàgines
...Hiftory may be formed from permanent monument? and records i but Lives can only b$ E 4 writwritten from perfonal knowledge, which is growing every day...and in a fhort time is loft for ever. What is known' can.feldom be immediately told ; and when it might be toW, it is no longer known. The delicate features... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 476 pàgines
...necefllty of complying with times, and of fparing perfons, is the great impediment of biography. Hiftory may be formed from permanent monuments and records; but Lives can only be written from perforial knowledge, which is growing every day lefs, and in a fhort time is loft for ever. What is... | |
 | samuel johnson - 1781 - 258 pàgines
...neceffity of complying 'with' times, and of fparing perfons,.is the great impediment of biography. Hiftory may be formed from permanent monuments and records ; but Lives can only be E 4 writwritten from perfonal knowledge, which is growing every day lefs, and in a fhort time is loft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1782 - 482 pàgines
...neceffity of complying with times, and of fparing perfons, is the great impediment of biography. Hiftory may be formed from permanent monuments and records,...feldom be immediately told, and when it might be told, is no longer known. Johofon'i Life of Addifoni The writer of his own life has at leaft the firft qualification... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 456 pàgines
...neceffity of complying with times , and of fparing perfons, is the great impediment of biography. Hiftory may be formed from permanent monuments and records;...lefs, and in a fhort time is loft for ever. What is knowacan feldom be immediately told -t and when it might be told, it is no longer known. The delicate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 484 pàgines
...neceffity of complying with times, and of Sparing perfons, is the great impediment of biography. Hiftory may be formed from permanent monuments and records;. but Lives can only be written from perfonal Icnowledge, which is growing every day lefs, and in a fhort time is loft for ever. What is known can... | |
 | 1792 - 638 pàgines
...of fparing perfons, is the great impediment *' of biography." Hiflory may be formed from pecma.nent monuments and records, "but lives can only be written...in a fhort time is loft for ever. What is known can fefdom be immediately told ; and when it might be toki it is no longer known: the delicate features... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pàgines
...fparing perfons, is the great impediment of biography. Hiflory may be formed from permanent men numents and records; but Lives can only be written from perfonal knowledge, which is growing every day Icfs, and in a fhort time is loft for ever. What is known can feldom be immediately told ; and when... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1794 - 450 pàgines
...neceffity of complying with times, and of fparing perfons, is the great impediment of biography. Hiftory may be formed from permanent monuments and records...knowledge, which is growing every day lefs, and in a lihort time .is loft for ever. What is known can feldom be immediately told ; and when it might 7 be... | |
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History may be formed from permanent monuments and records ; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost for ever. 
