The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Том 2G. Bell and Sons, 1884 |
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... expressed a wish to be acquainted . He received him very courteously . Sir Alexander observed , that the Chancellors in England are chosen from views much inferior to the office , being chosen from temporary political views . JOHNSON ...
... expressed a wish to be acquainted . He received him very courteously . Sir Alexander observed , that the Chancellors in England are chosen from views much inferior to the office , being chosen from temporary political views . JOHNSON ...
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... expression ) of Ranelagh was at the installation ball of the Knights of the Bath , in 1803 , when I saw it , as I have described , very brilliant in company , but somewhat faded in its own decorations . It has since been razed to the ...
... expression ) of Ranelagh was at the installation ball of the Knights of the Bath , in 1803 , when I saw it , as I have described , very brilliant in company , but somewhat faded in its own decorations . It has since been razed to the ...
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... expressed some apprehension that the Pantheon would encourage luxury . " Sir , " said Johnson , " I am a great friend to public amusements ; for they keep people from vice . You now , " addressing himself to me , " would have been with ...
... expressed some apprehension that the Pantheon would encourage luxury . " Sir , " said Johnson , " I am a great friend to public amusements ; for they keep people from vice . You now , " addressing himself to me , " would have been with ...
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... expression of which he would ( in no commendable spirit of jocularity ) infer , that the enlightening them was one of the " greatest marvels " which could be worked . - Croker . * One hundred and eighty - five thousand . See Isaiah ...
... expression of which he would ( in no commendable spirit of jocularity ) infer , that the enlightening them was one of the " greatest marvels " which could be worked . - Croker . * One hundred and eighty - five thousand . See Isaiah ...
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... expression , he was too compact , too much broken into hints , as it were , and , therefore , too difficult to be under- stood . To my great satisfaction , Dr. Johnson sanctioned this opinion . " Tacitus , Sir , seems to me rather to ...
... expression , he was too compact , too much broken into hints , as it were , and , therefore , too difficult to be under- stood . To my great satisfaction , Dr. Johnson sanctioned this opinion . " Tacitus , Sir , seems to me rather to ...
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Страница 171 - The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." I argued warmly against the Judges trading, and mentioned Hale as an instance of a perfect Judge, who devoted himself entirely to his office. JOHNSON. " Hale, Sir, attended to other things besides law : he left a great estate.
Страница 457 - He had always been very zealous against slavery in every form, in which I with all deference thought that he discovered " a zeal without knowledge." 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 ! " His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity.
Страница 33 - Edgeware road, and had carried down his books in two returned post-chaises. He said, he believed the farmer's family thought him an odd character, similar to that in which the Spectator appeared to his landlady and her children : he was The Gentleman. Mr. Mickle, the translator of The Lusiad, and I went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards.
Страница 60 - I told him that Goldsmith had said to me a few days before, " As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest.
Страница 18 - Sir, it is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.
Страница 513 - Follow me and hear a lecture in philosophy:' and Charles, laying his hand on his sword, to say, ' Follow me, and dethrone the Czar:' a man would be ashamed to follow Socrates.
Страница 423 - I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman ; but she should be one who could understand me, and would add something to the conversation.
Страница 349 - You must know, Sir, I lately took my friend Boswell and shewed him genuine civilised life in an English provincial town. I turned him loose at Lichfield, my native city, that he might see for once real civility: for you know he lives among savages in Scotland, and among rakes in London.