Letters of James Boswell, Addressed to the Rev. W.J. Temple: Now First Published from the Original MssR. Bentley, 1857 - 407페이지 |
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Abbé Raynal account of Corsica acquaintance admirable agreeable amiable amusement ANDREW ERSKINE appear Auchinleck believe best compliments BOSWELL AND ERSKINE Boswell's character comfort confess conversation correspondence Corsican Court of Session daughter David David Hume deal dear friend dear Temple dearest friend dined Dundas Edinburgh elegant father favour feel following letter fond gentleman give Gray happy hear honour hope Hume hypochondria imagine Inner Temple JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson kind lady Lisburne literary live London Lord Lisburne Lord Lonsdale Malone Mamhead married mind Miss Blair never night obliged occasion Paoli perhaps Perreau pleased pleasure Pray present Princess published racter received remarks Rudd Samuel Johnson says Scotland sensible sincerely Sir Joshua soon spirits strange talk tell Temple's thought tion told uneasy vanity week wife wish woman worthy write written wrote Wyvill yesterday young
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44 페이지 - As the vessel put out to sea, I kept my eyes upon him for a considerable time, while he remained rolling his majestic frame in his usual manner ; and at last I perceived him walk back into the town, and he disappeared.
208 페이지 - We walked in the evening in Greenwich park. He asked me, I suppose, by way of trying my disposition, " Is not this very fine?" Having no exquisite relish of the beauties of nature, and being more delighted with " the busy hum of men," I answered " Yes, sir ; but not equal to Fleet-street." JOHNSON. "You are right, sir.
44 페이지 - Nay, Sir, it is more likely you should forget me, than that I should forget you." As the vessel put out to sea, I kept my eyes upon him for a considerable time, while he remained rolling his...
66 페이지 - Jamie, mon," he said to a friend. " Jamie is gaen clean gyte. — What do you think, mon ? He's done wi' Paoli — he's off wi' the land-louping scoundrel of a Corsican ; and whose tail do you think he has pinned himself to now, mon ?" Here the old judge summoned up a sneer of most sovereign contempt. " A dominie, mon — an auld dominie ; he keeped a schule, and cau'd it an acaadamy.
33 페이지 - Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
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175 페이지 - He was equally acquainted with the elegant and profound parts of science, and that not superficially, but thoroughly. He knew every branch of history, both natural and civil ; had read all the original iibtorians of England, France, and Italy; and was a great antiquarian.
134 페이지 - , in his rude versification, has very judiciously pointed out that degree of intelligence which is to be desired in a female companion : ' Give me, next good, an understanding wife, By Nature wise, not learned by much art ; Some knowledge on her side will all my life More scope of conversation impart ; Besides, her inborne virtue fortifie ; They are most firmly good, who best know why.
178 페이지 - All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it."— I did not push the subject any farther.
295 페이지 - ... haec studia adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis perfugium ac solatium praebent, 'delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur.