The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan and Company, 1922 |
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... question of some difficulty . A Scripture expression may be used , like a highly classical phrase , to produce an instantaneous strong impression ; and it may be done without being at all im- proper . Yet I own there is danger , that ...
... question of some difficulty . A Scripture expression may be used , like a highly classical phrase , to produce an instantaneous strong impression ; and it may be done without being at all im- proper . Yet I own there is danger , that ...
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... question to him upon a fact in common life , which he could not answer , nor have I found any one else who could . What is the reason that women servants , though obliged to be at the expense of purchasing their own clothes , have much ...
... question to him upon a fact in common life , which he could not answer , nor have I found any one else who could . What is the reason that women servants , though obliged to be at the expense of purchasing their own clothes , have much ...
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... question , when considered with respect to the House of Stuart . To oblige people to take oaths as to the disputed right , is wrong . I know not whether I could take them : but I do not blame those who do . " So conscientious and so ...
... question , when considered with respect to the House of Stuart . To oblige people to take oaths as to the disputed right , is wrong . I know not whether I could take them : but I do not blame those who do . " So conscientious and so ...
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... question whether one man is lessened by another's acquiring an equal degree of knowledge with him . Johnson asserted the affirmative . I maintained that the position might be true in those kinds of know- ledge which produce wisdom ...
... question whether one man is lessened by another's acquiring an equal degree of knowledge with him . Johnson asserted the affirmative . I maintained that the position might be true in those kinds of know- ledge which produce wisdom ...
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... question cannot be imagined . " 1 He said , " Goldsmith should not be for ever attempt- ing to shine in conversation : he has not temper for it , he is so much mortified when he fails . Sir , a game of jokes is composed partly of skill ...
... question cannot be imagined . " 1 He said , " Goldsmith should not be for ever attempt- ing to shine in conversation : he has not temper for it , he is so much mortified when he fails . Sir , a game of jokes is composed partly of skill ...
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366 페이지 - 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 of thinking beings.
96 페이지 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
370 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.
112 페이지 - I once wrote for a magazine : I made a calculation, that if I should write but a page a day, at the same rate, I should, in ten years, write nine volumes in folio, of an ordinary size and print.
352 페이지 - Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is Strange, yet nothing new: Endless labour all along, Endless labour to be wrong; Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
128 페이지 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
27 페이지 - Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go And view the ocean leaning on the sky : From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know And on the lunar world securely pry.
204 페이지 - I sell here, Sir, what all the " world desires to have, — POWER' He had about seven
24 페이지 - Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale.
300 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.