| Carl Edmund Rollyson - 2005 - 321 páginas
...management of things, which nothing but their frequency makes considerable. *" [5] I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with... | |
| Stewart Justman - 2006 - 175 páginas
...of conspirators" does not much interest the common reader. He goes on to say, "I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a 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... | |
| John Nethercote, Tracey Arklay, John Wanna - 2006 - 144 páginas
...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... | |
| Paul Atkinson - 2007 - 532 páginas
...Press, pp. 75-88. 27 The Call of Life Stories in Ethnographic Research KEN PLUMMER I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a 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,... | |
| Helga Schwalm - 2007 - 422 páginas
...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... | |
| |