The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, 3권G. Cowie, 1824 |
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... learned men abroad are in the Universities . It is not so with us . Our Univer- sities are impoverished of learning , by the penury of their provisions . I wish there were many places of a thousand a year at Oxford , to keep first ...
... learned men abroad are in the Universities . It is not so with us . Our Univer- sities are impoverished of learning , by the penury of their provisions . I wish there were many places of a thousand a year at Oxford , to keep first ...
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... learned to play at cards . " The truth , however , is , that he loved to display his ingenuity in argument ; and therefore would some- times in conversation maintain opinions which he was sensible were wrong , but in supporting which ...
... learned to play at cards . " The truth , however , is , that he loved to display his ingenuity in argument ; and therefore would some- times in conversation maintain opinions which he was sensible were wrong , but in supporting which ...
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... learned Baxter , in his edition of Horace , " Dif- ficile est proprie communia dicere , h , e . res vulgares disertis verbis enarrare , vel humile thema cum dignitate tractare . Difficile est communes res propriis explicare verbis . Vet ...
... learned Baxter , in his edition of Horace , " Dif- ficile est proprie communia dicere , h , e . res vulgares disertis verbis enarrare , vel humile thema cum dignitate tractare . Difficile est communes res propriis explicare verbis . Vet ...
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... learned man was a native , is not the language fit for his epitaph , which should be in ancient and permanent language . Consider , Sir ; how you should feel , where you to find at Rotterdam an epitaph upon Erasmus in Dutch ! " - For my ...
... learned man was a native , is not the language fit for his epitaph , which should be in ancient and permanent language . Consider , Sir ; how you should feel , where you to find at Rotterdam an epitaph upon Erasmus in Dutch ! " - For my ...
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... My illustrious friend observed , that many North Britons pronounced his name in their own way . an Erse Grammar , which a very learned Highlander , Etat . 68. ] 97 DR . JOHNSON . tion and reverence for you are exalted and steady. ...
... My illustrious friend observed , that many North Britons pronounced his name in their own way . an Erse Grammar , which a very learned Highlander , Etat . 68. ] 97 DR . JOHNSON . tion and reverence for you are exalted and steady. ...
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169 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.
195 페이지 - Upon one occasion, when in company with some very grave men at Oxford, his toast was, " Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.
174 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.
162 페이지 - Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
169 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. The 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...
60 페이지 - And if Jack Wilkes should be there, what is that to me, Sir ? My dear friend, let us have no more of this. I am sorry to be angry with you ; but really it is treating me strangely to talk to me as if I could not meet any company whatever, occasionally.
90 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.
279 페이지 - From this pleasing subject, he, I know not how or why, made a sudden transition to one upon which he was a violent aggressor; for he said, " I am willing to love all mankind, except an American:" and his inflammable corruption bursting into horrid fire, he " breathed out threatenings and slaughter; " calling them, " Rascals — Robbers — Pirates;" and exclaiming, he'd
320 페이지 - Yet this man cut his own throat. The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
337 페이지 - Is not modesty natural ?" JOHNSON. " I cannot say, Sir, as we find no people quite in a state of nature ; but, I think, the more they are taught, the more modest they are. The French are a gross, ill-bred, untaught people : a lady there will spit on the floor and rub it with her foot. What I gained by being in France was, learning to be better satisfied with my own country.