The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The RamblerJ. Buckland [and 40 others], 1787 |
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... human screech.owl 376 60 The dignity and usesulness of biography - 381 61 A Londoner's visit to the country - . 387 62 A young lady's impatience to see London - 394 63 Inconstancy not always a weakness - 400 64 The requisites to true ...
... human screech.owl 376 60 The dignity and usesulness of biography - 381 61 A Londoner's visit to the country - . 387 62 A young lady's impatience to see London - 394 63 Inconstancy not always a weakness - 400 64 The requisites to true ...
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... human mind, the desire of good, and the sear of evil. For who can wonder that, allured on one fide, and frightened on the other, some should endeavour to gain savour by bribing the judge with an appearance of respect which they do not ...
... human mind, the desire of good, and the sear of evil. For who can wonder that, allured on one fide, and frightened on the other, some should endeavour to gain savour by bribing the judge with an appearance of respect which they do not ...
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... human state, to rouse mortals from their dream, and insorm them of the silent celerity of time, that we may believe authors willing rather to transmit than examine so advantageous a principle, and more inclined to pursue a track so ...
... human state, to rouse mortals from their dream, and insorm them of the silent celerity of time, that we may believe authors willing rather to transmit than examine so advantageous a principle, and more inclined to pursue a track so ...
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... human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. He that directs his steps to a certain point, must frequently turn his eyes to that place which he strives to reach ; he that undergoes the satigue of labour, must ...
... human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. He that directs his steps to a certain point, must frequently turn his eyes to that place which he strives to reach ; he that undergoes the satigue of labour, must ...
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... human species requires more to be cautioned against this anticipation of happiness, than thofe that aspire to the name of authors. A man of lively sancy no sooner finds a hint moving in his mind, than he makes momenta- neous excursions ...
... human species requires more to be cautioned against this anticipation of happiness, than thofe that aspire to the name of authors. A man of lively sancy no sooner finds a hint moving in his mind, than he makes momenta- neous excursions ...
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Strona 388 - There are many who think it an Act of Piety to hide the Faults or Failings of their Friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their Detection; we therefore see whole Ranks of Characters adorned with uniform Panegyrick, and not to be known from one another, but by extrinsick and casual Circumstances. "Let me remember...
Strona 416 - ... is consulted ; he lamented the unmanly impatience that prompted him to seek shelter in the grove, and despised the petty curiosity that led him on from trifle to trifle.
Strona 30 - Wherever it appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of its stratagems: for while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred.
Strona 271 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have...
Strona 283 - All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals.
Strona 384 - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.
Strona 25 - The task of our present writers is very different; it requires, together with that learning which is to be gained from books, that experience which can never be attained by solitary diligence, but must arise from general converse, and accurate observation of the living world.
Strona 386 - ... the business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents, which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue.
Strona 287 - Retire with me, O rash unthinking mortal, from the vain allurements of a deceitful world, and learn that pleasure was not designed the -portion of human life. Man was born to mourn and to be wretched; this is the condition of all below the stars, and whoever endeavours to oppose it acts in contradiction to the will of Heaven.
Strona 383 - ALL joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realises the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in 'the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves.