The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Količina 4G. Bell and Sons, 1884 |
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... knew that , if he were once launched from the metropolis , he would go forward very well ; and I got our common friends there to assist in setting him afloat . To Mrs. Thrale , in particular , whose enchantment over him seldom ties of ...
... knew that , if he were once launched from the metropolis , he would go forward very well ; and I got our common friends there to assist in setting him afloat . To Mrs. Thrale , in particular , whose enchantment over him seldom ties of ...
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... knew his opinion to be the same with my own , he kept himself aloof at a very critical period indeed , when the Douglas cause shook the sacred security of birthright in Scotland to its foundation ; a cause which , had it happened before ...
... knew his opinion to be the same with my own , he kept himself aloof at a very critical period indeed , when the Douglas cause shook the sacred security of birthright in Scotland to its foundation ; a cause which , had it happened before ...
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... knew himself to be dying , which I may some time or other communicate to the world . I shall not , however , extol him so very highly as Dr. Adam Smith does , who says , in a letter to Mr. Strahan the printer ( not a confidential letter ...
... knew himself to be dying , which I may some time or other communicate to the world . I shall not , however , extol him so very highly as Dr. Adam Smith does , who says , in a letter to Mr. Strahan the printer ( not a confidential letter ...
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... knew him before he began to be better than other people ( smiling ) ; that he believed he sincerely meant well , but had a mixture of politics and osten- tation : whereas Wesley thought of religion only . Robertson said , Whitfield had ...
... knew him before he began to be better than other people ( smiling ) ; that he believed he sincerely meant well , but had a mixture of politics and osten- tation : whereas Wesley thought of religion only . Robertson said , Whitfield had ...
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... knew , had learned the Erse language , and expressed his belief in the authenticity of Ossian's Poetry . Dr. Johnson took the opposite side of that perplexed question , and I was afraid the dispute would have run high between them . But ...
... knew , had learned the Erse language , and expressed his belief in the authenticity of Ossian's Poetry . Dr. Johnson took the opposite side of that perplexed question , and I was afraid the dispute would have run high between them . But ...
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Stran 65 - The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind! Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose.
Stran 71 - What is to become of society, if a friendship of twenty years is to be broken off for such a cause ?" As Bacon says, " Who then to frail mortality shall trust, " But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
Stran 5 - Dr. Samuel Johnson's character, religious, moral, political, and literary, nay, his figure and manner are, I believe, more generally known than those of almost any man ; yet it may not be superfluous here to attempt a sketch of him. Let my readers then remember that he was a sincere and zealous Christian, of high church of England and monarchical principles, which he would not tamely suffer to be...
Stran 25 - 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 315 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Stran 318 - The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up...
Stran 41 - I put the case of Eustace Budgell, who was accused of forging a will, and sunk himself in the Thames,. before the trial of its authenticity came on. " Suppose, sir," said I, " that a man is absolutely sure, that, if he lives a few days longer, he shall be detected in a fraud, the consequence of which will be utter disgrace and expulsion from society.
Stran 305 - 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 200 - There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.
Stran 15 - ... what the law has settled. A lawyer is to do for his client all that his client might fairly do for himself, if he could. If, by a superiority of attention, of knowledge, of skill, and a better method of communication, he has the advantage of his adversary, it is an advantage to which he is entitled. There must always be some advantage on one side or the other; and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.