 It is rarely well executed. They only who live with a man can write his life with any genuine exactness and discrimination ; and few people who have lived with a man know what to remark about him.  The Table Talk of John Selden - Sida 146efter John Selden - 1818 - 180 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Michael Shortland, Richard R. Yeo - 1996 - 318 sidor
...that Roger North considered appropriate. North agreed with many others, including Samuel Johnson, that They only who live with a man can write his life with any genuine exactness and discrimination', and that anyone lacking such personal knowledge — as was the case with Wotton and Boyle - was severely... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 sidor
...referring specifically to Coldsmith's Life ofParnell. He later reiterated and qualified this statement: "They only who live with a man can write his life...have lived with a man know what to remark about him." (Mar. 20, 1 776). Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down... | |
 | Alfred Rupert Hall, Isaac Newton - 1999 - 236 sidor
...with a man know what to remark about him'. Yet Johnson still maintained that 'They only who have lived with a man can write his life with any genuine exactness and discrimination'.2 The reasons for this view are obvious; it supposes that a man's character is most... | |
 | Michael Hunter, Michael Cyril William Hunter - 2000 - 316 sidor
...that Roger North considered appropriate. North agreed with many others, including Samuel Johnson, that 'They only who live with a man can write his life...with any genuine exactness and discrimination', and that anyone lacking such personal knowledge - as was the case with Wotton and Boyle - was severely... | |
 | Jessica Martin - 2001 - 384 sidor
...of Johnson's opinions on biography. 'It is rarely well executed', Boswell has his Johnson say of it: 'They only who live with a man can write his life,...have lived with a man know what to remark about him." Few subjects can so fortuitously have commended their commemorators; and the remark mainly reflects,... | |
 | Helga Schwalm - 2007 - 422 sidor
...The Times Literary Supplement 15.12.1995, p. 1 1. 314 "We talked of biography. — JOHNSON. '[...]. They only who live with a man can write his life with any genuine exactness and discnmination; and few people who have hved with a man know what to remark about him.'" Boswell, Life... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire, Rolfe Arnold Scott-James - 1927 - 716 sidor
...opportunity of dealing with Dr. Towers when he came to the Life of Milton, 2.348 (440). 2. 26 (2.446)—" The chaplain of a late Bishop, whom I was to assist...some memoirs of his Lordship, could tell me scarcely anything." " Dr. Pearce, the late Bishop of Rochester," is struck out in the Revise. (See Hill 3.112,... | |
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