 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 512 σελίδες
...included. Life, iv. 311. In the talk between him and Lord Monboddo on Aug. 21, 1773, Monboddo said:— 'The history of manners is the most valuable. I never set a high value on any other history.' Johnson replied : — ' Nor I ; and therefore I esteem biography as giving us what comes near to ourlet let... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 σελίδες
...included. Life, iv. 311. In the talk between him and Lord Monboddo on Aug. 21, 1773, Monboddo said : — ' The history of manners is the most valuable. I never set a high value on any other history.' Johnson replied : — ' Nor I ; and therefore I esteem biography as giving us what comes near to ourlet let... | |
 | James Boswell - 1898 - 442 σελίδες
...I ; and therefore I esteem crease of biography, as giving us what comes near to ourselves, learmn£ what we can turn to use." — BOSWELL. " But in the...of humanity, and other particulars." — JOHNSON. " Yes ; but then you must take all the facts to get this ; and it is but a little you get." — MONBODDO.... | |
 | William Angus Knight - 1900 - 350 σελίδες
...Ancients held so is plain from this : that Euripides, in his Hecuba, makes him the person to interpose.' Monboddo. ' The history of manners is the most valuable....manners. In wars we see the dispositions of people, their degree of humanity, and other particulars.' Johnson. ' Yes ; but then you must take all the facts to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 556 σελίδες
...held so, is plain from this ; that Euripides, in his H?cuha, makes him the person to interpose." * MONBODDO. " The history of manners is the most valuable....comes near to ourselves, what we can turn to use." BOSWBLL. " But in the course of general history, we find manners. In wars, we see the dispositions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 σελίδες
...biographical part of literature, he says, ' is what I love most.' ' His reason almost goes' without saying. ' I esteem biography as giving us what comes near to ourselves, what we can turn to use.' * Only one biography of the first order can be written by one man. The execution requires such devotion,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 σελίδες
...held so, is plain from this ; that Euripides, in his Hecuba, makes him the person to interpose V — Monboddo. ' The history of manners is the most valuable....of humanity, and other particulars.' — Johnson. ' Yes ; but then you must take all the facts to get this ; and it is but a little you get.' — Monboddo.... | |
 | Harold Nicolson - 1927 - 170 σελίδες
...knowledge" which "not only excludes mistakes but fortifies veracity." "I esteem biography," he remarked, "as giving us what comes near to ourselves, what we can turn to use. . . ." a Or again: "The value of every story depends on its being true. A story is a picture either... | |
 | F. H. Hinsley - 1967 - 742 σελίδες
...2 hardback ISBN 0 521 09448 8 paperback Transferred to digital printing 2004 CON1VGI D1LECTISSIMAE 'Monboddo. The history of manners is the most valuable....degrees of humanity and other particulars. Johnson. Yes, but then you must take all the facts to get this, and it is but a little you get. Monboddo. And... | |
 | Mike Featherstone, Mike Hepworth, Bryan S Turner - 1991 - 420 σελίδες
...permanent intention to persuade IV Samuel Johnson declared that the principal value of biography is in 'giving us what comes near to ourselves, what we can turn to use'. For modern readers and writers of social biography this means a more sympathetic as well as more psychologically... | |
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But in the course of general history, we find manners. In wars, we see the dispositions of people, their degrees of humanity, and other particulars. 
