THE WORKS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON1823 |
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Stran 461 - IT is observed by Bacon, that “reading makes a full man, conversation a ready man, and writing an exact man.” As Bacon attained to degrees of knowledge scarcely ever reached by any other man, the directions which he gives for study have certainly a just claim to our regard; for who can teach an art with so great
Stran 270 - they know; some men of confused memories and habitual inaccuracy ascribe to one man what belongs to another; and some talk on without thought or care. A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters. He proceeds on examining passage after passage of this essay; but we must pass over all
Stran 514 - sili. Intrust thy fortune to the Pow'rs above: • Leave them to manage for thee, and to grant What their unerring wisdom sees thee want. In goodness as in greatness they excel: Ah! that we lov'd ourselves but half so well.
Stran 513 - toil of others; for life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes, and seeing them gratified. He that labours in any great or laudable undertaking, has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy;
Stran 194 - unsocial, living each man to himself, taking from the weak, and losing to the strong. In their first coalitions of society, much of this original savageness is retained. Of general happiness, the product of general confidence, there is yet no thought. Men continue to prosecute their own advantages by the nearest way; and the
Stran 201 - but the law must leave both riches and power where it finds them; and must often leave riches with the covetous, and power with the crueL Convenience may be a rule in little things, where no other rule has been established. But as the great end of government is to give every man his own, no
Stran 227 - monwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they grew rich grew corrupt, and, in their corruption, sold the lives and freedoms of themselves, and of one another. “About this time Brutus had his patience put to the highest trial: he had been married to
Stran 192 - vagum. If intromission be not criminal till it exceeds a certain point, and that point be unsettled, and consequently different in different minds, the right of intromission, and the right of the creditor arising from it, are all ,jura vaga, and, by consequence, are jura incognita; and the result can be no other than a
Stran 318 - and with which the whole Christian world might wish for communion. They were pure from all the heresies of an age, to which every opinion is become a favourite that the universal church has hitherto detested. This praise the general. interest of mankind reqnires to be given to writers who
Stran 372 - The gates of Hell arc open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return and view the cheerful skies; In this the task and mighty labour lies.