 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1880 - 488 pages
...of his life. " But, biography has often been alotted to writers, who seem very little •cquainted with the nature of their task, or very negligent about...imagine themselves writing a life, when they exhibit a chroaological series of actions or preferments ; and have so little regard to the manners or behaviour... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 742 pages
...personal character, which represents him as careful of his health, and negligent of his life. " But biography has often been allotted to writers, who...preferments; and have so little regard to the manners or behaviour of their heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 598 pages
...negligent about the performance. They rarely afford any other account than might be collected from publick papers, but imagine themselves writing a life, when...exhibit a chronological series of actions or preferments ; 3and have so little regard to the manners 3 or behaviour of their heroes, that more knowledge may... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1888 - 608 pages
...personal character, which represents him as careful of his health, and negligent of his life. " But biography has often been allotted to writers, who...afford any other account than might be collected from publick papers, but imagine themselves writing a life, when they exhibit a chronological series of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 424 pages
...of his health, and negligent of his life. But biography has often been allotted to writers who feeem very little acquainted with the nature of their task,...afford /any other account than might be collected from publick papers, but imagine themselves writing a life when they exhibit a chronological series of actions... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 pages
...personal character, which represents him as careful of his health, and negligent of his life. " But biography has often been allotted to writers, who...preferments ; and have so little regard to the manners or behaviour of their heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 566 pages
...personal character, which represents him as careful of his health, and negligent of his life. " But biography has often been allotted to writers, who...preferments ; and have so little regard to the manners or behaviour of their heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1889 - 296 pages
...personal character, which represents him as " careful of his health, and negligent of his life." But biography has often been allotted to writers, who...chronological series of actions or preferments ; and so little regard the manners or behaviour of their heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of a man's... | |
 | James Boswell - English literature - 1890 - 568 pages
...personal character, which represents him as careful of his health, and negligent of his life. " But biography has often been allotted to writers, who...preferments ; and have so little regard to the manners or behaviour of their heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character, by a short... | |
 | Francis Seymour Stevenson - Biography - 1893 - 160 pages
...Johnson seeks to justify his view are worthy of consideration. " Biography," he remarks in the Rambler, " has often been allotted to writers who seem very little...preferments ; and have so little regard to the manners or behaviour of their heroes, that more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation... | |
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But biography has often been allotted to writers, who seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task, or very negligent about the performance. They rarely afford any other account than might be collected from... 
