Macaulay's Life of Samuel JohnsonGinn, 1903 - 94 страници |
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... important factor in keeping him happy would not last much longer . At any rate his last election to the House of Commons was followed by an illness from which he never fully recovered , but through which , for seven years , " he ...
... important factor in keeping him happy would not last much longer . At any rate his last election to the House of Commons was followed by an illness from which he never fully recovered , but through which , for seven years , " he ...
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... important to my happi- ness than wealth , titles , and even fame , those whom I love are well and happy , and very kind and affectionate to me . " One of the chief sources of his happiness , one to which he was particularly indebted ...
... important to my happi- ness than wealth , titles , and even fame , those whom I love are well and happy , and very kind and affectionate to me . " One of the chief sources of his happiness , one to which he was particularly indebted ...
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... important discoveries day by day , but his concern was not with them , even at a time when Darwin was writing his Origin of Species . It was not clear to him that philosophical speculations like Carlyle's might do much to better the con ...
... important discoveries day by day , but his concern was not with them , even at a time when Darwin was writing his Origin of Species . It was not clear to him that philosophical speculations like Carlyle's might do much to better the con ...
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... important in literature . He had none of the feeling that Ruskin had , that it was his duty to turn reformer , but what he did toward educating his readers he did in the way he most enjoyed . III . THE STUDY OF MACAULAY Once for all it ...
... important in literature . He had none of the feeling that Ruskin had , that it was his duty to turn reformer , but what he did toward educating his readers he did in the way he most enjoyed . III . THE STUDY OF MACAULAY Once for all it ...
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... important ? Then there is the vocabulary . Who does not enjoy the feeling that he is enlarging his vocabulary ? An easy way of doing it is to read two or three times such a paragraph as the nineteenth , and then , with the book closed ...
... important ? Then there is the vocabulary . Who does not enjoy the feeling that he is enlarging his vocabulary ? An easy way of doing it is to read two or three times such a paragraph as the nineteenth , and then , with the book closed ...
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Страница 84 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre...
Страница 85 - Seven years, my lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance,l one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
Страница 45 - Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived ; and he has beaten them all.
Страница 86 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Страница 65 - Sir, that is all visionary. I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. Sir, the danger of the abuse of power is nothing to a private man. What Frenchman is prevented passing his life as he pleases? ' SIR ADAM : ' 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.
Страница 85 - 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? 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.
Страница 8 - Hervey," said the old philosopher many years later, " was a vicious man ; but he was very kind to me. If you call a dog Hervey, I shall love him.
Страница 83 - An author who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue;' and Numbers 44 and 100, by Mrs.
Страница 73 - All his books are written in a learned language, in a language which nobody hears from his mother or his nurse, in a language in which nobody ever quarrels, or drives bargains, or makes love, in a language in which nobody ever thinks.
Страница 85 - In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise is performed; and though no book was ever spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence...