Lives of Men of Letters and Science, who Flourished in the Time of George III, Količina 2Baudry's European Library, 1846 - 301 strani |
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... course of instruction which he greatly wished to follow , from the want of fit shoes , is a fact related by those who remarked his feet appearing through those he wore , and who also have recorded his proud refusal of assistance while ...
... course of instruction which he greatly wished to follow , from the want of fit shoes , is a fact related by those who remarked his feet appearing through those he wore , and who also have recorded his proud refusal of assistance while ...
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... course between idleness and overwork , by being moderate in the enjoyment of sleep , and by attention to diet . But he never at any period of his long life was free from the infliction , so that melancholy was the general habit , and ...
... course between idleness and overwork , by being moderate in the enjoyment of sleep , and by attention to diet . But he never at any period of his long life was free from the infliction , so that melancholy was the general habit , and ...
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... course was this . The active powers were first affected ; all the exertions of the will becoming more painful and more difficult . This inertness next extended itself and crept over the intellectual faculties , the exercise of which ...
... course was this . The active powers were first affected ; all the exertions of the will becoming more painful and more difficult . This inertness next extended itself and crept over the intellectual faculties , the exercise of which ...
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... courses by killing a man in a brawl arising immediately out of a night thus spent - when we consider that one so poor must have sought the indulgences so plainly indicated by his biogra- pher , his all but adoring biographer , in their ...
... courses by killing a man in a brawl arising immediately out of a night thus spent - when we consider that one so poor must have sought the indulgences so plainly indicated by his biogra- pher , his all but adoring biographer , in their ...
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... course produced as great a change as possible in his habits . He no longer laboured as be- fore to gain money ; nor during the remaining twenty - two years of his life do we find him composing any considerable number of works , even for ...
... course produced as great a change as possible in his habits . He no longer laboured as be- fore to gain money ; nor during the remaining twenty - two years of his life do we find him composing any considerable number of works , even for ...
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Stran 162 - summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several walks in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was
Stran 162 - on the day, or rather the night of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several
Stran 3 - find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness or blessed with spontaneous fecundity ; no perpetual gloom or unceasing sunshine; nor are the natives here described either devoid of all sense of humanity or consummate in all private or social virtues Here are no Hottentots without religious piety or articulable language, no Chinese perfectly polite
Stran 31 - to think naturally and express forcibly. He taught us that it was possible to reason in rhyme. He showed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty. What was said of Rome, adorned by Augustus, may be applied by an easy metaphor to English poetry, embellished by Dryden;
Stran 3 - human nature is to be found, there is a mixture of vice and virtue, a contest of passion and reason ; and that the Creator doth not appear partial in his distributions, but has balanced in most countries their particular inconveniences by particular favours.
Stran 169 - Johnson hewed passages through the Alps, while Gibbon levelled walks through parks and gardens. Mauled as I had been by Johnson, Gibbon poured balm upon my bruises, by condescending once or twice in the course of the evening to talk with me. The great historian was light and playful,
Stran 235 - was the Precession of the equinoxes and the Nutation of the earth's axis, according to the theory of gravitation. Sir Isaac Newton, in the xxxix. prop, of the third book, had given an indirect solution of the problem concerning the Precession ; the Nutation had only been by
Stran 156 - Yet listen to his moan over the want of that sovereign authority which a social position exercises, but so as to make its service perfect freedom compared with the slavery of nullity and ennui. " While so many of my acquaintance were married, or in Parliament, or advancing with a rapid step in the various roads
Stran 169 - Johnson. Their manners and tastes, both in writing and conversation, were as different as their habiliments. On the day I first sat down with Johnson, in his rusty brown suit, and his black worsted stockings. Gibbon was placed opposite to me in a suit of flowered velvet, with a
Stran 22 - amidst the murmurs of envy and the gratulations of applause; attended from pleasure to pleasure by the great, the sprightly, and the vain; their regard solicited by the obsequiousness of gallantry, the gayety of wit, and the timidity of love;'