Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... doubt , to be wished that a proper degree of attention should be shewn by great men to their early friends . But if either from obtuse insensibility to difference of situation , or presumptuous forwardness , which will not submit even ...
... doubt , to be wished that a proper degree of attention should be shewn by great men to their early friends . But if either from obtuse insensibility to difference of situation , or presumptuous forwardness , which will not submit even ...
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... doubt be made for early prepossession . But at a maturer period of life , after looking at various metrical versions of the Psalms , I am well satisfied that the version used in Scotland is , upon the whole , the best ; and that it is ...
... doubt be made for early prepossession . But at a maturer period of life , after looking at various metrical versions of the Psalms , I am well satisfied that the version used in Scotland is , upon the whole , the best ; and that it is ...
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... doubt , on account of the loss which they had suffered ; and his doubts afterwards proved to be well - founded . He observed , indeed very justly , that ' their loss was an additional reason for their going abroad ; and if it had not ...
... doubt , on account of the loss which they had suffered ; and his doubts afterwards proved to be well - founded . He observed , indeed very justly , that ' their loss was an additional reason for their going abroad ; and if it had not ...
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... doubt contributed much to his comfort and enjoyment , was not without some degree of restraint : not , as has been grossly suggested , that it was required of him as a task to talk for the entertainment of them and their company ; but ...
... doubt contributed much to his comfort and enjoyment , was not without some degree of restraint : not , as has been grossly suggested , that it was required of him as a task to talk for the entertainment of them and their company ; but ...
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... doubt we should pity the state of his mind ; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves . We should knock him down first , and pity him afterwards . No , Sir ; every man will dispute with great good humour upon a ...
... doubt we should pity the state of his mind ; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves . We should knock him down first , and pity him afterwards . No , Sir ; every man will dispute with great good humour upon a ...
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Stran 380 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Stran 455 - 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.
Stran 455 - 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 ruins of lona.
Stran 381 - Poor stuff! No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Stran 154 - It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates, and masters, the fear of death : and therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants, about him, that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it...
Stran 302 - He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in travelling ; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
Stran 72 - To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays, And yet deny the Careless Husband praise, Or say our fathers never broke a rule ; Why then, I say, the public is a fool.
Stran 13 - I was never summoned to attend even the ceremony of a lecture; and, excepting one voluntary visit to his rooms during the eight months of his titular office, the tutor and pupil lived in the same college as strangers to...
Stran 358 - Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.
Stran 159 - Hermit hoar in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray : Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell, What is bliss? and which the way?