Wit and Wisdom of Samuel JohnsonClarendon Press, 1888 - 323 страници |
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... consider the unhappy striplings doomed to a camp from whom the sun has hitherto been screened and the wind excluded , who have been taught by many tender lectures the unwholesomeness of the evening mists and the morning dews , who have ...
... consider the unhappy striplings doomed to a camp from whom the sun has hitherto been screened and the wind excluded , who have been taught by many tender lectures the unwholesomeness of the evening mists and the morning dews , who have ...
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... consider ! You read a book ; you are convinced by it ; you do not know the author . Suppose you afterwards know him , and find that he does not practise what he teaches ; are you to give up your former conviction ? At this rate you ...
... consider ! You read a book ; you are convinced by it ; you do not know the author . Suppose you afterwards know him , and find that he does not practise what he teaches ; are you to give up your former conviction ? At this rate you ...
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... consider the present state of the world , it will be found that all confidence is lost among mankind , that no man ventures to act where money can be endangered upon the faith of another . It is impossible to see the long scrolls in ...
... consider the present state of the world , it will be found that all confidence is lost among mankind , that no man ventures to act where money can be endangered upon the faith of another . It is impossible to see the long scrolls in ...
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... consider every man that fails in any part of his duty as without conscience and without merit ; unworthy of trust or love , of pity or regard ; as an enemy whom all should join to drive out of society , as a pest which all should avoid ...
... consider every man that fails in any part of his duty as without conscience and without merit ; unworthy of trust or love , of pity or regard ; as an enemy whom all should join to drive out of society , as a pest which all should avoid ...
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... consider me as owing that to a Patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself . Having carried on my work thus far with so little obliga- tion to any favourer of learning , I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude ...
... consider me as owing that to a Patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself . Having carried on my work thus far with so little obliga- tion to any favourer of learning , I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude ...
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Страница 34 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, 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 34 - 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...
Страница 133 - His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void ; And sure the eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd.
Страница 33 - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship.
Страница 233 - No, sir, there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced, as by a good tavern or inn.
Страница 21 - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful ; for not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use ; but...
Страница 153 - DISORDERS of intellect, answered Imlac, happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
Страница 132 - Condemn'd to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave descend ; Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills Affection's eye, Obscurely wise and coarsely kind ; Nor...
Страница 261 - When we see men grow old and die at a certain time one after another, from century to century, we laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong life to a thousand years; and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided who, being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in his power to change sublunary nature and clear the world...
Страница 96 - Imlac,) I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth...