The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Tom 3G. Cowie, 1824 |
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... appeared to be well founded . He observed , indeed very justly , that " their loss was an additional reason for ... appearing too compliant . On Sunday , March 31 , I called on him , and shewed him as a curiosity which I had ...
... appeared to be well founded . He observed , indeed very justly , that " their loss was an additional reason for ... appearing too compliant . On Sunday , March 31 , I called on him , and shewed him as a curiosity which I had ...
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... appearance put me in mind of my uncle Dr. Boswell's description of him , " A robust genius , born to grapple with whole libraries . " I gave him an account of a conversation which had passed between me and Captain Cook , the day before ...
... appearance put me in mind of my uncle Dr. Boswell's description of him , " A robust genius , born to grapple with whole libraries . " I gave him an account of a conversation which had passed between me and Captain Cook , the day before ...
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... appeared to bear the loss of his son with a manly composure . There was no affectation about him ; and he talked , as usual , upon indifferent subjects . He seemed to me to hesitate as to the intended Italian tour , on which , I ...
... appeared to bear the loss of his son with a manly composure . There was no affectation about him ; and he talked , as usual , upon indifferent subjects . He seemed to me to hesitate as to the intended Italian tour , on which , I ...
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... appeared to have a pleasure in contradiction , especially when any opinion whatever was delivered with an air of confidence ; so that there was hardly any topick , if not one of the great truths of Religion and Morality , that he might ...
... appeared to have a pleasure in contradiction , especially when any opinion whatever was delivered with an air of confidence ; so that there was hardly any topick , if not one of the great truths of Religion and Morality , that he might ...
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... appeared , after all , very doubtful , he was content with 217. for his labour , besides a few sets of the books , to disperse among his friends . -Shiels had nearly 701. besides the advantage of many of the best Lives in the work being ...
... appeared , after all , very doubtful , he was content with 217. for his labour , besides a few sets of the books , to disperse among his friends . -Shiels had nearly 701. besides the advantage of many of the best Lives in the work being ...
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Strona 169 - WE were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
Strona 195 - Upon one occasion, when in company with some very grave men at Oxford, his toast was, " Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.
Strona 174 - Why, sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Strona 162 - Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Strona 169 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. The man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Strona 60 - And if Jack Wilkes should be there, what is that to me, Sir ? My dear friend, let us have no more of this. I am sorry to be angry with you ; but really it is treating me strangely to talk to me as if I could not meet any company whatever, occasionally.
Strona 90 - ALMIGHTY God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Strona 279 - From this pleasing subject, he, I know not how or why, made a sudden transition to one upon which he was a violent aggressor; for he said, " I am willing to love all mankind, except an American:" and his inflammable corruption bursting into horrid fire, he " breathed out threatenings and slaughter; " calling them, " Rascals — Robbers — Pirates;" and exclaiming, he'd
Strona 320 - Yet this man cut his own throat. The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
Strona 337 - Is not modesty natural ?" JOHNSON. " I cannot say, Sir, as we find no people quite in a state of nature ; but, I think, the more they are taught, the more modest they are. The French are a gross, ill-bred, untaught people : a lady there will spit on the floor and rub it with her foot. What I gained by being in France was, learning to be better satisfied with my own country.