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... Johnson maintains , I will not say that he convinces me ; but he never fails to shew me , that he had good reasons for it . " I have heard Johnson pay his Lordship this high compliment : " I never was in Lord Elibank's company without ...
... Johnson maintains , I will not say that he convinces me ; but he never fails to shew me , that he had good reasons for it . " I have heard Johnson pay his Lordship this high compliment : " I never was in Lord Elibank's company without ...
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... JOHNSON . " No , Sir , unless it prevent him from being vicious again . With some people , gloomy penitence is only mad- ness turned upside down . A man may be gloomy , till in order to be relieved from gloom , he has re- course again ...
... JOHNSON . " No , Sir , unless it prevent him from being vicious again . With some people , gloomy penitence is only mad- ness turned upside down . A man may be gloomy , till in order to be relieved from gloom , he has re- course again ...
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... Johnson himself . I said , I disliked the custom which some people had of bringing their children into company , because it in a manner forced us to pay foolish compliments to please their parents . JOHNSON . " You are right , Sir . We ...
... Johnson himself . I said , I disliked the custom which some people had of bringing their children into company , because it in a manner forced us to pay foolish compliments to please their parents . JOHNSON . " You are right , Sir . We ...
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... Johnson acquiesced in this ; but depreciated the book , I thought very unreason- ably . For he said , " I forced myself to read it , only because it was a common topic of conversation . I found it mighty dull ; and , as to the style ...
... Johnson acquiesced in this ; but depreciated the book , I thought very unreason- ably . For he said , " I forced myself to read it , only because it was a common topic of conversation . I found it mighty dull ; and , as to the style ...
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... JOHNSON . " In the first place , Sir , we learn from Othello this very useful moral , not to make an un- equal match ; in the second place , we learn not to yield too readily to suspicion . The handkerchief is merely a trick , though a ...
... JOHNSON . " In the first place , Sir , we learn from Othello this very useful moral , not to make an un- equal match ; in the second place , we learn not to yield too readily to suspicion . The handkerchief is merely a trick , though a ...
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Strona 220 - How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes T' and in his conversation with Mr.
Strona 196 - 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 318 - ... to certainty, freedom ceases, because that cannot be certainly foreknown which is not certain at the time; but if it be certain at the time, it is a contradiction in terms to maintain that there can be afterwards any contingency dependent upon the exercise of will or any thing else." JOHNSON. " All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Strona 398 - ... perpetual jarring of those whom he charitably accommodated under his roof. He has sometimes suffered me to talk jocularly of his group of females, and call them his Seraglio. He thus mentions them, together with honest Levett, in one of his letters to Mrs. Thrale : " Williams hates every body ; Levett hates Desmoulins, and does not love Williams ; Desmoulins hates them both ; Poll loves none of them.
Strona 377 - He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all.
Strona 35 - A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean.
Strona 67 - Provided, sir, I suppose, that the company which he is to have, is agreeable to you." JOHNSON. "What do you mean, sir? What do you take me for? Do you think I am so ignorant of the world as to imagine that I am to prescribe to a gentleman what company he is to have at his table?
Strona 66 - Notwithstanding the high veneration which I entertained for Dr. Johnson, I was sensible that he was sometimes a little actuated by the spirit of contradiction, and by means of that I hoped I should gain my point. I was persuaded that if I had come upon him with a direct proposal, "Sir, will you dine in company with Jack Wilkes?" he would have flown into a passion, and would probably have answered, "Dine with Jack Wilkes, Sir ! I'd as soon dine with Jack Ketch.
Strona 332 - I am a straggler. I may leave this town and go to Grand Cairo, without being missed here or observed there." EDWARDS. "Don't you eat supper, Sir?
Strona 32 - Reviewers (said he) are not Deists ; but they are Christians with as little Christianity as may be ; and are for pulling down all establishments. The Critical Reviewers are for supporting the constitution, both in church and state. The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the books through ; but lay hold of a topick, and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly Reviewers are duller men, and are glad to read the books through.