...uttering an earnest voice to deter or pereuade." In like manner, Johnson, while expressing an opinion that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful, remarks respecting those who • Memorial! of the Her. William Crook, Ute Senior Minister of the Irish...

...Christian, who served his country and his God with equal fidelity. If the remark of Dr. Johnson be true that " there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and authentic narrative would not be useful," it is believed that the story of the career of Isaac Hull...

...whose practice accorded with the precepts of the religion which he professed. Dr. Johnson has observed that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful, and that if it is objected to the relations of particular lives that they are not distinguished by...

...formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree, and ended with his funeral. I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious...would be of immediate and apparent use ; but there there is such a uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable deeorations...

...noisome and infectious." — Cymbeline. Clarence If.— Yes. Dr. Johnson says, " I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative might not be useful." JT. Jf. n., Bristol.— " Good unexpected— evil unforeseen, Appear by turns,...

...subject are confirmed by the strongly expressed opinions of Dr. Johnson, who says : "I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious...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 schemes of conspirators. I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of I which a judicious and faithful narrative would not...but there is such an uniformity in the state of man, * Note VI., Appendix. considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that...

...biography when rightly done could be futile. That rare old biographer Johnson has left his opinion that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious...narrative would not be useful. " For not only every man ", he wrote, " has in the mighty mass of the world great numbers in the same condition with himself,...

...biography when rightly done could be futile. That rare old biographer Johnson has left his opinion that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative WQuld not be useful. " For not only every man ", he wrote, " has in the mighty mass of the world great...

...which is most eagerly read and most easily applied to the purposes of life. ... I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful." — Dr. Johnson. " The lessons of life make deeper impressions than the lessons of books, because they...