Johnsoniana..John Sharpe, 1820 - 178페이지 |
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... strong emphatic voice , " Well , I have a mind to see what is done in other places of learn- ing . I'll go and visit the universities abroad . I'll go to France and Italy . I'll go to Padua - and I'll mind my business for an Athenian ...
... strong emphatic voice , " Well , I have a mind to see what is done in other places of learn- ing . I'll go and visit the universities abroad . I'll go to France and Italy . I'll go to Padua - and I'll mind my business for an Athenian ...
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... strong positive excel- lence . Few have all kinds of merit belonging to their character . We must not examine matters too deeply - No , sir , a fallible being will fail some- where . " He observed , it was a most mortifying reflection ...
... strong positive excel- lence . Few have all kinds of merit belonging to their character . We must not examine matters too deeply - No , sir , a fallible being will fail some- where . " He observed , it was a most mortifying reflection ...
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... strong an instance of this as can well be imagined . " An eminent tallow - chandler in Lon- don , who had acquired a considerable fortune , gave up the trade in favour of his foreman , and went to live at a country - house near town ...
... strong an instance of this as can well be imagined . " An eminent tallow - chandler in Lon- don , who had acquired a considerable fortune , gave up the trade in favour of his foreman , and went to live at a country - house near town ...
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... strong proof of ho- nesty . But this is a proof to which you have no right to put a man . You know , humanly speaking , there is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue . Now , in so far as you ap- proach ...
... strong proof of ho- nesty . But this is a proof to which you have no right to put a man . You know , humanly speaking , there is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue . Now , in so far as you ap- proach ...
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... strong at times . When Boswell talked of the advancement of the Scotch in literature , " Sir , " said he , " you have learnt a little from us , and you think yourselves very great men . Hume would ne- ver have written history , had not ...
... strong at times . When Boswell talked of the advancement of the Scotch in literature , " Sir , " said he , " you have learnt a little from us , and you think yourselves very great men . Hume would ne- ver have written history , had not ...
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34 페이지 - An historian ! My dear Sir, you surely will not rank his compilation of the Roman History with the works of other historians of this age ?
109 페이지 - Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.
54 페이지 - ... notion that a woman of spirit should use her lover like a dog. So, sir, at first she told me that I rode too fast, and she could not keep up with me ; and, when I rode a little slower, she passed me, and complained that I lagged behind. I was not to be made the slave of caprice ; and I resolved to begin as I meant to end. I therefore pushed on briskly, till I was fairly out of her sight. The road lay between two hedges, so I was sure she could not miss it ; and I contrived that she should soon...
16 페이지 - Majesty with profound respect, but still in his firm manly manner, with a sonorous voice, and never in that subdued tone which is commonly used at the levee and in the drawing-room.
40 페이지 - Madness frequently discovers itself merely by unnecessary deviation from the usual modes of the world. My poor friend Smart showed the disturbance of his mind by falling upon his knees and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place. Now although, rationally speaking, it is greater madness not to pray at all, than to pray as Smart did, I am afraid there are so many who do not pray, that their understanding is not called in question.
7 페이지 - have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them learu, 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.
161 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.
28 페이지 - Would you eat your dinner that day, Sir ?" JOHNSON. " Yes, Sir ; and eat it as if he were eating with me. Why, there's Baretti, who is to be tried for his life to-morrow, friends have risen up for him on every side; yet if he should be hanged, none of them will eat a slice of plum-pudding the less. Sir, that sympathetic feeling goes a very little way in depressing the mind.
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.
167 페이지 - ... supposing your arguments to be -weak and inconclusive. But, Sir, that is not enough. An argument which does not convince yourself may convince the judge to whom you urge it ; and if it does convince him, why, then, Sir, you are wrong, and he is right.