The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Henry Baldwin, 1786 - 442 strani |
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... still more valuable , when , by the lapse of time , he shall have become an ancient ; when all those who can now bear teftimony to the tranfcendent powers of his mind , fhall have paffed away ; and no other memorial of this great and ...
... still more valuable , when , by the lapse of time , he shall have become an ancient ; when all those who can now bear teftimony to the tranfcendent powers of his mind , fhall have paffed away ; and no other memorial of this great and ...
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... still continues . A zea- lous Scotfman would have wifhed Mr. Johnson to be without one of his five fenfes upon this occafion . As we marched flowly along , he grumbled in my ear , " I fmell you in the dark ! " in the dark ! " But he ...
... still continues . A zea- lous Scotfman would have wifhed Mr. Johnson to be without one of his five fenfes upon this occafion . As we marched flowly along , he grumbled in my ear , " I fmell you in the dark ! " in the dark ! " But he ...
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... still more to me , and I declared the fhould have five hundred pounds of additional for- tune . We talked of the practice of the law . Sir Wil- liam Forbes faid , he thought an honest lawyer should never undertake a caufe which he was ...
... still more to me , and I declared the fhould have five hundred pounds of additional for- tune . We talked of the practice of the law . Sir Wil- liam Forbes faid , he thought an honest lawyer should never undertake a caufe which he was ...
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... still prevalent among fome of the Presbyterians ; and therefore it was right in Lord Hailes , a man of known piety , to undeceive them . We walked out , that Dr. Johnfon might fee fome of the things which we have to fhew at Edinburgh ...
... still prevalent among fome of the Presbyterians ; and therefore it was right in Lord Hailes , a man of known piety , to undeceive them . We walked out , that Dr. Johnfon might fee fome of the things which we have to fhew at Edinburgh ...
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... still more in his criticifm upon Pope's Homer , in his Life of that Poet . My excellent friend , Mr. Langton , told me , he was once prefent at a dif pute between Dr. Johnson and Mr. Burke , on the comparative merits of Homer and Virgil ...
... still more in his criticifm upon Pope's Homer , in his Life of that Poet . My excellent friend , Mr. Langton , told me , he was once prefent at a dif pute between Dr. Johnson and Mr. Burke , on the comparative merits of Homer and Virgil ...
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Stran 101 - Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Stran 19 - Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.
Stran 353 - 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 37 - 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.
Stran 48 - We talked of change of manners. Dr. Johnson observed that our drinking less than our ancestors was owing to the change from ale to wine. "I remember," said he, "when all the decent people in Lichfield got drunk every night, and were not the worse thought of.
Stran 342 - 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 ruins...
Stran 317 - Its merits had not escaped the notice of Dr. Johnson, though in politics opposed to much it inculcates, for in reply to an observation of Boswell in praise of the French Ana, he said, ' A few of them are good, but we have one book of that kind better than any of them — Selden's Table Talk.
Stran 15 - There must always be some advantage, on one side or other; and it is better that advantage should be had by talents, than by chance. If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.
Stran 7 - He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the marvellous and the mysterious, his vigorous reason examined the evidence with jealousy.
Stran 173 - Tartan waistcoat with gold buttons and gold button-holes, a bluish philibeg, and Tartan hose. He had jet black hair tied behind, and was a large stately man, with a steady sensible countenance.