The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler; and William Pickering, London., 1826 |
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... death of an old school- fellow , and one with whom he had lived a good deal in London , would have affected my fellow - traveller much : but he only said , " Ah ! poor Jamy . " Afterwards , how- ever , when we were in the chaise , he ...
... death of an old school- fellow , and one with whom he had lived a good deal in London , would have affected my fellow - traveller much : but he only said , " Ah ! poor Jamy . " Afterwards , how- ever , when we were in the chaise , he ...
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... death , he took to dissipation and gaming , and lost all he had . One evening he lost a thousand pounds to a gentleman whose name I am sorry I have forgotten . Next morning he sent the gentleman five hundred pounds , with an apology ...
... death , he took to dissipation and gaming , and lost all he had . One evening he lost a thousand pounds to a gentleman whose name I am sorry I have forgotten . Next morning he sent the gentleman five hundred pounds , with an apology ...
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... death and the grave , proclaimed immortality to mankind . I repeated to him an argument of a lady of my acquaint- ance , who maintained , that her husband's having been guilty of numberless infidelities , released her from conjugal ...
... death and the grave , proclaimed immortality to mankind . I repeated to him an argument of a lady of my acquaint- ance , who maintained , that her husband's having been guilty of numberless infidelities , released her from conjugal ...
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... death , published by some person who had been about him , and , for the sake of a little hasty profit , was fallaciously advertised so as to make it be believed to have been written by Johnson himself . I said , I disliked the custom ...
... death , published by some person who had been about him , and , for the sake of a little hasty profit , was fallaciously advertised so as to make it be believed to have been written by Johnson himself . I said , I disliked the custom ...
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... death by attrition ; and that , therefore , the way to preserve life is to retard pulsa- tion . But we know that pulsation is strongest in infants , and that we increase in growth while it operates in its re- gular course ; so it cannot ...
... death by attrition ; and that , therefore , the way to preserve life is to retard pulsa- tion . But we know that pulsation is strongest in infants , and that we increase in growth while it operates in its re- gular course ; so it cannot ...
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156 페이지 - 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...
156 페이지 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. 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...
161 페이지 - Why, Sir, you \ find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. \ No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
150 페이지 - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
273 페이지 - I met him (said he) at Lord Clare's house in the country, and he took no more notice of me than if I had been an ordinary man.
237 페이지 - I will not be put to the question. Don't you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman? I will not be baited with what, and why; what is this? what is that? why is a cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy?' The gentleman, who was a good deal out of countenance, said, 'Why, Sir, you are so good, that I venture to trouble you.
196 페이지 - To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew...
57 페이지 - Too, too, too," (under his breath,) which was one of his habitual mutterings. Mr. Arthur Lee could not but be very obnoxious to Johnson, for he was not only a patriot but an American. He was afterwards minister from the United States at the Court of Madrid. " And who is the gentleman in lace 1 " —
56 페이지 - I hope you will be good enough to forego it for a day ; as Mr. Dilly is a very worthy man, has frequently had agreeable parties at his house for Dr. Johnson, and will be vexed if the Doctor neglects him today. And then, Madam, be pleased to consider my situation; I carried the message, and I assured Mr.
83 페이지 - ALMIGHTY God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.