The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.Inskeep and Bradford, 1810 - 414 strani |
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James Boswell. THE JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES , WITH SAMUEL JOHNSON , L.L.D. BY JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . CONTAINING SOME POETICAL PIECES BY DR . JOHNSON , RELATIVE TO THE TOUR , AND NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED : A SERIES OF HIS ...
James Boswell. THE JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES , WITH SAMUEL JOHNSON , L.L.D. BY JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . CONTAINING SOME POETICAL PIECES BY DR . JOHNSON , RELATIVE TO THE TOUR , AND NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED : A SERIES OF HIS ...
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James Boswell. which form the most valuable part of the ensuing pages , are correctly related . To them therefore I wish to ap- peal , for the accuracy of the portrait here exhibited to the world . As one of those who were intimately ...
James Boswell. which form the most valuable part of the ensuing pages , are correctly related . To them therefore I wish to ap- peal , for the accuracy of the portrait here exhibited to the world . As one of those who were intimately ...
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James Boswell. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE AMERICAN EDITION . IN republishing a work , which has so much inter- ested and amused the literary world , and has so long subjected its author to the sarcasms of foes , or to the plaudits of friends ...
James Boswell. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE AMERICAN EDITION . IN republishing a work , which has so much inter- ested and amused the literary world , and has so long subjected its author to the sarcasms of foes , or to the plaudits of friends ...
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James Boswell. scended to expose himself in terms , to which no man of ostentatious vanity could have submitted . With what naiveté and unconcern does he for instance , tell us , that " Johnson told him , that he ( Mr. B. ) got into the ...
James Boswell. scended to expose himself in terms , to which no man of ostentatious vanity could have submitted . With what naiveté and unconcern does he for instance , tell us , that " Johnson told him , that he ( Mr. B. ) got into the ...
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James Boswell. brated writers , and how earnestly it is regretted that we have not more , I am justified in preserving too many rather than too few of Johnson's sayings . ' In addition to his own opinion thus given , we think it ...
James Boswell. brated writers , and how earnestly it is regretted that we have not more , I am justified in preserving too many rather than too few of Johnson's sayings . ' In addition to his own opinion thus given , we think it ...
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Stran 322 - 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. That 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...
Stran 332 - ... daring aims irregularly great; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, B,y forms...
Stran 186 - Had Jesus Christ delivered no other declaration than the following : ' The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth ; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation...
Stran 24 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Stran 194 - I have all my life long been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
Stran 348 - Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know that a man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice...
Stran 83 - Sir Joshua Reynolds, sir, is the most invulnerable man I know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel, you would find the most difficulty how to abuse.
Stran 186 - ... constitutional Blackstone wisely rests on the solid footing of authority. " Our ancestors having most indisputably a competent jurisdiction to decide this great and important question, and having, in fact, decided it, it is now become our duty, at this distance of time, to acquiesce in their determination.
Stran 121 - The day was calm, the air was soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which, by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.
Stran 34 - The teeming mother anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face: Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king.