The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 |
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... particular attention by a person of the first eminence in the age in which he lived , whose company has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a dedi- VOL . I. cation , when I mention that ...
... particular attention by a person of the first eminence in the age in which he lived , whose company has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a dedi- VOL . I. cation , when I mention that ...
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... particular on which it has become neces- sary to speak very plainly . I have therefore in this work been more reserved ; and though I tell nothing but the truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be ...
... particular on which it has become neces- sary to speak very plainly . I have therefore in this work been more reserved ; and though I tell nothing but the truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be ...
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... particular friends , but of many other learned and ingenious men , by which I have been enabled to rectify some mistakes , and to enrich the work with many valuable additions . These I have ordered to be printed separately in quarto ...
... particular friends , but of many other learned and ingenious men , by which I have been enabled to rectify some mistakes , and to enrich the work with many valuable additions . These I have ordered to be printed separately in quarto ...
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... particular selection from his general conversation , but was merely his occasional talk at such times as I had the good fortune to be in his company ; and , without doubt , if his discourse at other periods had been collected with the ...
... particular selection from his general conversation , but was merely his occasional talk at such times as I had the good fortune to be in his company ; and , without doubt , if his discourse at other periods had been collected with the ...
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... particular persons are barren and useless . If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end , we may hope for impartiality , but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a ...
... particular persons are barren and useless . If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end , we may hope for impartiality , but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a ...
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250 페이지 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
428 페이지 - I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill '." My next meeting...
250 페이지 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help...
280 페이지 - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
253 페이지 - Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom: 'This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!
379 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.
338 페이지 - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned ;
38 페이지 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.
298 페이지 - ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE, FELL A MARTYR TO POLITICAL PERSECUTION, MARCH 14, IN THE YEAR, 1757 ; WHEN BRAVERY AND LOYALTY WERE INSUFFICIENT SECURITIES FOR THE LIFE AND HONOUR OF A NAVAL OFFICER.
461 페이지 - I thus, Sir, showed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them; why not then have some people above them?