The Works of Samuel Johnson, Том 8Nichols, 1816 |
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... desire to be a writer ? Yet is not this Letter without some sentiments , which , though not new , are of great importance , and may be read with pleasure in the thousandth repetition . " Whatever we enjoy is purely a free gift from our ...
... desire to be a writer ? Yet is not this Letter without some sentiments , which , though not new , are of great importance , and may be read with pleasure in the thousandth repetition . " Whatever we enjoy is purely a free gift from our ...
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... could be of this only , that we are not so high in the scale of ex- " istence as our ignorant ambition may desire ; a " pretence which must eternally subsist ; because , " were we ever so much higher , there would 28 REVIEW OF A.
... could be of this only , that we are not so high in the scale of ex- " istence as our ignorant ambition may desire ; a " pretence which must eternally subsist ; because , " were we ever so much higher , there would 28 REVIEW OF A.
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... desire inherent in mathematicians to reduce every thing to mathematical images , considers all existence as a cone , allows that the basis is at an in- finite distance from the body . And in this distance between finite and infinite ...
... desire inherent in mathematicians to reduce every thing to mathematical images , considers all existence as a cone , allows that the basis is at an in- finite distance from the body . And in this distance between finite and infinite ...
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... desire , and therefore neither can easily force its way against prejudice and obstinacy ; each will have its excellencies and defects , and every man , with a little help from pride , may think his own the best . It seems to be the ...
... desire , and therefore neither can easily force its way against prejudice and obstinacy ; each will have its excellencies and defects , and every man , with a little help from pride , may think his own the best . It seems to be the ...
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... desire superiority by unexpensive benefaction . Yet , notwithstanding all these motives to com- pliance , the promoters of petitions have not been successful . Few could be persuaded to lament evils 4 1 which they did not suffer , or to ...
... desire superiority by unexpensive benefaction . Yet , notwithstanding all these motives to com- pliance , the promoters of petitions have not been successful . Few could be persuaded to lament evils 4 1 which they did not suffer , or to ...
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Страница 174 - That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property, and they have never ceded to any sovereign power whatever, a right to dispose of either without their consent.
Страница 176 - That by such emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are, entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
Страница 246 - And what was this book ? My readers, prepare your features for merriment. It was Cocker's Arithmetic!
Страница 177 - But, from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament, as are bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America,...
Страница 251 - I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of romance might have delighted to feign. I had, indeed, no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which, by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well, I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.
Страница 142 - MILTON. nPO improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
Страница 250 - An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from her care, and disinherited of her favours, left in its original elemental state, or quickened only with one sullen power of useless vegetation.
Страница 279 - The strokes of the sickle were timed by the modulation of the harvest song, in which all their voices were united.
Страница 122 - The life of a modern soldier is ill represented by heroic fiction. War has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction; pale, torpid, spiritless, and helpless; gasping and groaning unpitied, among men made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery; 160 and...
Страница 390 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. 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...