...progress in the mechanical arts. True, on the one hand, our great moralist has laid it down, that " they only who live with a man can write his life with any genuine exactness and discrimination ; " and from the long intimacy which I was permitted to enjoy with Sir Isambard Brunel, I am enabled so far...

...character was increased by knowing him personally. — Boswell. WE talked of biography. — Johnson. " It is rarely well executed. They only who live with...have lived with a man know what to remark about him." BFRKE is an extraordinary man : his stream of mind is perpetual. — Johnson, 484. WHEN I looked at...

...You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. BIOGRAPHY. It is rarely well executed. They only who live with a man can write hig life with any genuine exactness and discrimination ; and few people who have lived with a man know...

...personal knowledge, would have produced a most excellent work. Boswell records a dictum of Dr. Johnson : " They only who live with a man can write his Life with...have lived with a man know what to remark about him." Locke would have known what to remark. When Locke died, leaving only a small collection of crude materials,...

...personal knowledge, would have produced a most excellent work. Boswell records a dictum of Dr. Johnson : " They only who live with a man can write his Life with...people who have lived with a man know what to remark abont him." Locke would have known what to remark. When Locke died, leaving only a small collection...

...produced a most excellent work. Boswell records a dictum of Dr. Johnson : " They only who live with & man can write his Life with any genuine exactness...have lived with a man know what to remark about him." Locke would have known what to remark. When Locke died, leaving only a small collection of crude materials,...

...gradations admitting always some difference in the first principles." We talked of biography. JOHNSON : " It is rarely well executed. They, only, who live with...some memoirs of his lordship, could tell me scarcely anything." I told him that I heard Dr. Percy was writing the history of the wolf in Great Britain....

...whom we passed a part of the evening. We talked of biography. JOHNSON : ' It is rarely well exccuted. diserimination ; and few people who have lived with a man know what to remark about 1 The rision which...

...Mr. Thomas Warton, with »bom we passed a part of the evening. We talked of biography. JOHNSON : ' It is rarely well executed. They only who live with a man on write hi« life with any genuine exactness i uH discrimination ; and few people who have ¡ UT»d...

...Mr. Thomas Warton, with whom we passed a part of the evening. We talked of biography. — JOHNSON. "It is rarely well executed. They only who live with...writing some memoirs of his Lordship, could tell me almost nothing."' I said, Mr. Robert Dodsley's life should be written, as he had been so much connected...