The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: And the Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Том 2G. Routledge and Sons, 1885 |
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... allowed at all , they should only be retreats for persons unable to serve the publick , or who have served it . It is our first duty to serve society ; and , after we have done that , we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own ...
... allowed at all , they should only be retreats for persons unable to serve the publick , or who have served it . It is our first duty to serve society ; and , after we have done that , we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own ...
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... allowed in a court of justice . Rousseau , Sir , is a very bad man . I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation than that of any felon who has gone from the Old Bailey these many years . Yes , I should like to have him work ...
... allowed in a court of justice . Rousseau , Sir , is a very bad man . I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation than that of any felon who has gone from the Old Bailey these many years . Yes , I should like to have him work ...
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... allowed to go on . The following letters , though not written till the year after , being chiefly upon the same subject , are here inserted . " DEAR SIR , " TO MR . WILLIAM DRUMMOND . " THAT my letter should have had such effects as you ...
... allowed to go on . The following letters , though not written till the year after , being chiefly upon the same subject , are here inserted . " DEAR SIR , " TO MR . WILLIAM DRUMMOND . " THAT my letter should have had such effects as you ...
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... allowed to the dying declarations , because they were spontaneous . There is a great difference between what is said without our being urged to it , and what is said from a kind of compulsion . If I praise a man's book with- out being ...
... allowed to the dying declarations , because they were spontaneous . There is a great difference between what is said without our being urged to it , and what is said from a kind of compulsion . If I praise a man's book with- out being ...
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... allowed us to prepare for eternity ; " the night cometh when no man can work . " He some time afterwards laid aside this dial - plate ; and when I asked him the reason , he said , " It might do very well upon a clock which a man keeps ...
... allowed us to prepare for eternity ; " the night cometh when no man can work . " He some time afterwards laid aside this dial - plate ; and when I asked him the reason , he said , " It might do very well upon a clock which a man keeps ...
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Страница 188 - Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go And view the ocean leaning on the sky : From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know And on the lunar world securely pry.
Страница 267 - I understand he was reserved, and might appear dull in company ; but surely he was not dull in poetry." JOHNSON : " Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him GREAT. He was a mechanical poet.
Страница 157 - Dr. Goldsmith has a new comedy, which is expected in the spring. No name is yet given it. The chief diversion arises from a stratagem by which a lover is made to mistake his future father-in-law's house for an inn. This, you see, borders upon farce. The dialogue is quick and gay, and the incidents are so prepared as not to seem improbable.
Страница 17 - During the whole of this interview, Johnson talked to his 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.
Страница 341 - ... you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward in proportion as they please. 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 92 - ... a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. — Gentlemen of education, (he observed,) were pretty much the same in all countries ; the condition of the lower orders, the poor especially, was the true mark of national discrimination.
Страница 128 - ... Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the crown ? The crown has not power enough. When I say that all governments are alike, I consider that in no government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. If a sovereign oppresses his people to a great degree, they will rise and cut off his head. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
Страница 138 - 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 black lead pencil.