 | 1750 - 228 pages
...are now of lefs importance to the world, than that part of his perfonal character, which reprefents him as careful of his health, and negligent of his...But biography has often been allotted to writers who feem very little acquainted with the nature of their talk, or very negligent about the performance.... | |
 | 1785 - 596 pages
...biography has often been allotted to writers who feem very little acquainted with the nature of their talk, or very negligent about the performance. They rarely...afford any other account than might be collected from publick papers, but imagine themftlves writing a life when they exhibit a chronological feries of actions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pages
...biography has often been allotted to writers who feem very little acquainted with the nature of their tafk, or very negligent about the performance. They rarely...afford any other account than might be collected from publick papers,' but imagine themfelves writing a life when they exhibit a chronological feries of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787
...been allotted to writers - ^who feem very little acquainted with the nature of • <•' - their tafk, or very negligent about the performance. "" They rarely...any other account than might be ~~ collected from publick papers, but imagine them . felves writing a life when they exhibit a chronologi^r cal feries... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 564 pages
...has often been allotted to writers, who feem very little acquainted with the nature of their tafk, or very negligent about the performance. They rarely...afford any other account than might be collected from publick papers, but imagine themfelves writing a life, when they exhibit a chronological feries of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 pages
...biography has often been allotted to writers who feem very little acquainted with the nature of their tafk, or very negligent about the performance. They rarely...afford any other account than might be collected from publick papers, but imagine themfelves writing a life when they exhibit a chronological feries of actions... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...are now of less importance to the world than that part of his personal character, which represents him as careful of his health, and negligent of his...afford any other account than might be collected from publick papers, but imagine themselves writing a life, when they exhibit a chronological series of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...are now of less importance to the world than that part of his personal character, which represents him as careful of his health, and negligent of his...afford any other account than might be collected from publick papers, but imagine themselves writing a life, when they exhibit a chronological series of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...are now of less importance to the w.Qjrld than that part of his personal character, which represents him as careful of his health, and negligent of his...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 - 1801 - 460 pages
...are now of lefs importance to the world, than that part of his perfonal character, which reprefents him as careful of his health, and negligent of his...But biography has often been allotted to writers who feem Very little acquainted with the nature of their tafk, or very negligent about the performance.... | |
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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. 
