The British Prose Writers, 16권J. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... learning . " There is here , sir , such a progressive emulation : the students are anxious to appear well to their tutors ; the tutors are anxious to have their pupils appear well in the college ; the colleges are anxious to have their ...
... learning . " There is here , sir , such a progressive emulation : the students are anxious to appear well to their tutors ; the tutors are anxious to have their pupils appear well in the college ; the colleges are anxious to have their ...
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... learning does not flourish in them as it would do if those who teach had smaller salaries , and depended on their assiduity for a great part of their income . JOHNSON . " Sir , the very re- verse of this is the truth : the English ...
... learning does not flourish in them as it would do if those who teach had smaller salaries , and depended on their assiduity for a great part of their income . JOHNSON . " Sir , the very re- verse of this is the truth : the English ...
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... learning with them for his life . In the foreign universities a professorship is a high thing : it is as much almost as a man can make by his learning ; and therefore we find the most learned men abroad are in the universities . It is ...
... learning with them for his life . In the foreign universities a professorship is a high thing : it is as much almost as a man can make by his learning ; and therefore we find the most learned men abroad are in the universities . It is ...
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... learning . " JOHNSON . " Why , sir , that may be true in cases where learn- ing cannot possibly be of any use ; for instance , this boy rows us as well without learning , as if he could sing the song of Orpheus to the Argonauts , who ...
... learning . " JOHNSON . " Why , sir , that may be true in cases where learn- ing cannot possibly be of any use ; for instance , this boy rows us as well without learning , as if he could sing the song of Orpheus to the Argonauts , who ...
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... learning : but for the sons of citizens , who are to learn a little , get good morals , and then go to trade , he may do very well . " Boswell once asked him whether a person , whose name he had then forgotten , studied hard ; he an ...
... learning : but for the sons of citizens , who are to learn a little , get good morals , and then go to trade , he may do very well . " Boswell once asked him whether a person , whose name he had then forgotten , studied hard ; he an ...
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afterwards appeared asked Beauclerk Beggar's Opera believe better Boswell mentioned Boswell talked Burney character church Colley Cibber common consider conversation David Garrick dine doubt drinking eminent England fellow Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear heard honour human humour instance Jacobite John judge king king of Prussia knew lady Langton laugh learning Lichfield literary live London lord Lord Bute lord Chesterfield lord Mansfield Lord Monboddo madam mankind manner marriage mean merit mind moral nation never occasion once opinion Pembroke college pleased poem poor principles racter religion remark says Boswell Scotch Scotland sion Sir Joshua Reynolds speak spect spirit strong suppose sure tell thing thought Thrale tion told Tom Davies true truth wine wish woman wonder write wrong
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89 페이지 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
23 페이지 - ADAMS. But, Sir, how can you do this in three years ? JOHNSON. Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years. ADAMS. But the French Academy, which consists of forty members, took forty years to compile their Dictionary.
110 페이지 - ... thinking how different a place London is to different people. They, whose narrow minds are contracted to the consideration of some one particular pursuit, view it only through that medium. A politician thinks of it merely as the seat of government in its different departments ; a grazier, as a vast market for cattle ; a mercantile man, as a place where a prodigious deal of business is done upon 'Change ; a...
138 페이지 - He used frequently to observe that men might be very eminent in a profession, without our perceiving any particular power of mind in them in conversation. ' It seems strange,' said he, ' that a man should see so far to the right, who sees so short a way to the left. Burke is the only man whose common conversation corresponds with the general fame which he has in the world. Take up whatever topic you please, he is ready to meet you.
7 페이지 - I would rather [said he] have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them learn, than tell a child, if you do thus, or thus, you will be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of superiority, you lay the foundation of lasting mischief; you make brothers and sisters hate each other.
132 페이지 - Well, Madam, and you ought to be perpetually watching. It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.
35 페이지 - Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet ,with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius 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...
153 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. Now I am told the King of Prussia will say to a servant, ' Bring me a bottle of such a wine, which came in such a year ; it lies in such a corner* of the cellars.' I would have a man great in great things, and elegant in little things.
162 페이지 - A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of traveling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean.
60 페이지 - Yes, Sir." BOSWELL. " He has a singular talent of exhibiting character." JOHNSON. " Sir, it is not a talent, it is a vice ; it is what others abstain from. It is not comedy, which exhibits the character of a species, as that of a miser gathered from many misers : it is farce, which exhibits individuals.