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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... passed between me and Captain Cook , the day before , at dinner at Sir John Pringle's ; and he was much pleased with the conscientious accuracy of that cele- brated circumnavigator , who set me right as to many . of the exaggerated ...
... passed between me and Captain Cook , the day before , at dinner at Sir John Pringle's ; and he was much pleased with the conscientious accuracy of that cele- brated circumnavigator , who set me right as to many . of the exaggerated ...
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... passed his time , while in England , only in the best company ; so that all that he had acquired of our man- ners was genteel . As a proof of this , Sir , Lord Mul- grave and he dined one day at Streatham ; they sat with their backs to ...
... passed his time , while in England , only in the best company ; so that all that he had acquired of our man- ners was genteel . As a proof of this , Sir , Lord Mul- grave and he dined one day at Streatham ; they sat with their backs to ...
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... passed declaratory of their full right to one as well as the other , in matter of libel ; and the bill having been brought in by a popular gentleman , many of his party have in most extravagant terms declaimed on the wonderful ...
... passed declaratory of their full right to one as well as the other , in matter of libel ; and the bill having been brought in by a popular gentleman , many of his party have in most extravagant terms declaimed on the wonderful ...
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... passed under his observation , it would have afforded a very rich fund of instruction and entertainment . The suddenness with which his accounts of some of them started out in conversation , was not less pleasing than surprising . I ...
... passed under his observation , it would have afforded a very rich fund of instruction and entertainment . The suddenness with which his accounts of some of them started out in conversation , was not less pleasing than surprising . I ...
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... passed some time by ourselves . I was sorry to find it was now re- solved that the proposed journey to Italy should not take place this year . He said , " I am disappointed , to be sure ; but it is not a great disappointment . " I won ...
... passed some time by ourselves . I was sorry to find it was now re- solved that the proposed journey to Italy should not take place this year . He said , " I am disappointed , to be sure ; but it is not a great disappointment . " I won ...
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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.