The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.J.M. Dent & Company, 1901 |
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... Common - Council of London ; so Mr. Elwal failed in his scheme of making himself a man of great consequence . " On Tuesday , March 31 , he and I dined at General Paoli's . A question was started whether the state of marriage was natural ...
... Common - Council of London ; so Mr. Elwal failed in his scheme of making himself a man of great consequence . " On Tuesday , March 31 , he and I dined at General Paoli's . A question was started whether the state of marriage was natural ...
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... common , that he attracted particular attention . He proved to be the Honourable Thomas Erskine , youngest brother to the Earl of Buchan , who has since risen into such brilliant reputation at the bar in Westminster - hall . 6 99 ...
... common , that he attracted particular attention . He proved to be the Honourable Thomas Erskine , youngest brother to the Earl of Buchan , who has since risen into such brilliant reputation at the bar in Westminster - hall . 6 99 ...
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... common punishment , and bids defiance to all common degrees of pain . Correction must be proportionate to occasions . The flexible will be reformed by gentle discipline , and the refractory must be subdued by harsher methods . The ...
... common punishment , and bids defiance to all common degrees of pain . Correction must be proportionate to occasions . The flexible will be reformed by gentle discipline , and the refractory must be subdued by harsher methods . The ...
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... common plausible topicks , I at last had recourse to the maxim , in vino veritas , a man who is well warmed with wine will speak truth . JOHNSON . " Why , Sir , that may be an argument for drinking , if you suppose men in general to be ...
... common plausible topicks , I at last had recourse to the maxim , in vino veritas , a man who is well warmed with wine will speak truth . JOHNSON . " Why , Sir , that may be an argument for drinking , if you suppose men in general to be ...
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... common life , which he could not answer , nor have I found any one else who could . What is the reason that women servants , though obliged to be at the expence of pur- chasing their own clothes , have much lower wages than men servants ...
... common life , which he could not answer , nor have I found any one else who could . What is the reason that women servants , though obliged to be at the expence of pur- chasing their own clothes , have much lower wages than men servants ...
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Страница 346 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible.
Страница 348 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Страница 101 - MR. JAMES MACPHERSON, I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
Страница 350 - Why, sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Страница 423 - Johnson's conversation before dinner, as Johnson had said that he could repeat a complete chapter of the Natural History of Iceland, from the Danish of Horrebow, the whole of which was exactly thus : " CHAP. LXXII. Concerning Snakes. " There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island.
Страница 18 - Mr. Mickle, the translator of « The Lusiad,' and I went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards. He was not at home; but, having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals scrawled upon the wall with a blacklead pencil.
Страница 127 - I once wrote for a magazine : I made a calculation, that if I should write but a page a day, at the same rate, I should, in ten years, write nine volumes in folio, of an ordinary size and print.
Страница 439 - Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, Sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
Страница 204 - Whoe'er has travell'd 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.
Страница 364 - When I first entered Ranelagh, it gave an expansion and gay sensation to my mind, such as I never experienced any where else. But, as Xerxes wept when he viewed his immense army, and considered that not one of that great multitude would be alive a hundred years afterwards, so it went to my heart to consider that there was not one in all that brilliant circle, that was not afraid to go home and think ; but that the thoughts of each individual there, would be distressing when alone.