...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...feed their craving of the moment, not even "those in the clay are safe?" "I have often thought," says Johnson, " that there has rarely passed a life of...judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. For all is common to human kind. It is objected to relations of particular lives, that the public cannot...