The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Richardson, 1823 |
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... mind by meditation , or by reading some portions of Scripture . Tetty . " If I can hear the sermon , to attend it , unless attention be more troublesome than useful . " To consider the act of prayer as a reposal of myself upon God , and ...
... mind by meditation , or by reading some portions of Scripture . Tetty . " If I can hear the sermon , to attend it , unless attention be more troublesome than useful . " To consider the act of prayer as a reposal of myself upon God , and ...
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... mind prevented him from ever dedicating in his own person , he wrote a very great number of Dedications for others . Some of these , the persons who were favoured with them are unwilling should be mentioned , from a too anxious ...
... mind prevented him from ever dedicating in his own person , he wrote a very great number of Dedications for others . Some of these , the persons who were favoured with them are unwilling should be mentioned , from a too anxious ...
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... mind which has been so long feasted with variety . But let us try what esteem and kindness can effect . " As your father's liberality has indulged you with so long a ramble , I doubt not but you will think his sickness , or even his ...
... mind which has been so long feasted with variety . But let us try what esteem and kindness can effect . " As your father's liberality has indulged you with so long a ramble , I doubt not but you will think his sickness , or even his ...
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... mind to be viewed with pity rather than with anger . On his favourite subject of subordination , John- son said : " So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal that no two people can be half an hour together , but one ...
... mind to be viewed with pity rather than with anger . On his favourite subject of subordination , John- son said : " So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal that no two people can be half an hour together , but one ...
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... mind was in- creased and confirmed . The roughness , indeed , which sometimes ap- peared in his manners was more striking to me now , from my having been accustomed to the studied smooth complying habits of the Conti- nent ; and I ...
... mind was in- creased and confirmed . The roughness , indeed , which sometimes ap- peared in his manners was more striking to me now , from my having been accustomed to the studied smooth complying habits of the Conti- nent ; and I ...
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363 페이지 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
326 페이지 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
190 페이지 - I believe they might be good beings ; but they were not fit to be in the University of Oxford. A cow is a very good animal in the field ; but we turn her out of a garden.
213 페이지 - ... else that denoted his imbecility. I as much believe that he wrote it, as if I had seen him do it. Sir, had he shown it to any one friend, he would not have been allowed to publish it. He has, indeed, done it very well ; but it is a foolish thing well done. I suppose he has been so much elated with the success of his new comedy, that he has thought every thing that concerned him must be of importance to the public.
123 페이지 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
173 페이지 - But, Sir, in the British Constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the Crown ". JoHNSON : " Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig. — Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the Crown ? The Crown has not power enough.
323 페이지 - I wondered to hear him say of " Gulliver's Travels," —" When once you have thought of big men and little men, it is very easy to do all the rest.
90 페이지 - ... of the boats, and other circumstances, are all very good description ; but do not impress the mind at once with the horrible idea of immense height. The impression is divided ; you pass on by computation, from one stage of the tremendous space to another. Had the girl in ' The Mourning Bride' said, she could not cast h'er shoe to the top of one of the pillars in the temple, it would not have aided the idea, but weakened it.
260 페이지 - I remember one day, when Tom Davies was telling that Dr. Johnson said — ' We are all in labour for a name to Goldy's play,' Goldsmith seemed displeased that such a liberty should be taken with his name, and said, ' I have often desired him not to call me Goldy.
233 페이지 - For instance, (said he), the fable of the little fishes, who saw birds fly over their heads, and envying them, petitioned Jupiter to be changed into birds. The skill (continued he,) consists in making them talk like little fishes.