The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 3J. Richardson and Company, 1821 |
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... ; ROBINSONS AND CO .; G. WALKER ; J. EVANS AND SONS ; R. DOBSON ; J. JONES ; AND J. JOHNSON : ALSO , J. CARFRAE , AND J. SUTHERLAND , EDINBURGH ; AND R. GRIFFIN AND CO . GLASGOW . 1821 . Printed by T. Davison , Lombard - street . 8-23.88.
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... Edinburgh is not yet exhausted ; and I am sure you will find no pleasure here which can deserve either that you should anticipate any part of your future fortune , or that you should condemn yourself and your lady to penurious frugality ...
... Edinburgh is not yet exhausted ; and I am sure you will find no pleasure here which can deserve either that you should anticipate any part of your future fortune , or that you should condemn yourself and your lady to penurious frugality ...
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... Edinburgh , May 12 , 1771 . " LORD HAILES has begged of me to offer you his best respects , and to transmit to you specimens of ' Annals of Scotland , from the Accession of Malcolm Kenmore to the Death of James V. ' in drawing up which ...
... Edinburgh , May 12 , 1771 . " LORD HAILES has begged of me to offer you his best respects , and to transmit to you specimens of ' Annals of Scotland , from the Accession of Malcolm Kenmore to the Death of James V. ' in drawing up which ...
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... Edinburgh , June 24 , 1774 . " You do not acknowledge the receipt of the various packets which I have sent to you . Neither can I prevail with you to answer my letters , though honour me with returns . You have said nothing poor ...
... Edinburgh , June 24 , 1774 . " You do not acknowledge the receipt of the various packets which I have sent to you . Neither can I prevail with you to answer my letters , though honour me with returns . You have said nothing poor ...
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... Edinburgh , Aug. 30 , 1774 . " You have given me an inscription for a portrait of Mary Queen of Scots , in which you , in a short and striking manner , point out her hard fate . But you will be pleased to keep in mind , that my picture ...
... Edinburgh , Aug. 30 , 1774 . " You have given me an inscription for a portrait of Mary Queen of Scots , in which you , in a short and striking manner , point out her hard fate . But you will be pleased to keep in mind , that my picture ...
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Página 50 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Página 87 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Página 258 - And if Jack Wilkes should be there, what is that to me, Sir? My dear friend, let us have no more of this. I am sorry to be angry with you; but really it is treating me strangely to talk to me as if I could not meet any company whatever, occasionally.
Página 68 - Yes, Sir, when a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly.' The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write : a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Página 173 - 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.
Página 181 - The vastness and the contrivance of some of the machinery would have "matched his mighty mind." I shall never forget Mr. Boulton's expression to me, " I sell here, sir, what all the world desires to have — POWER.
Página 264 - You will allow his Apology to be well done." JOHNSON: "Very well done, to be sure, Sir. That book is a striking proof of the justice of Pope's remark: "Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand.
Página 354 - Life, he must represent- it really as it was :" and when I objected to the danger of telling that Parnell drank to excess, he said, that " it would produce an instructive caution to avoid drinking, when it was seen, that even the learning and genius of Parnell could be debased by it.
Página 185 - we are a city of philosophers ; we work with our heads, and make the boobies of Birmingham work for us with their hands.
Página 307 - ... would amplify knowledge with new views and new objects. Set about it therefore, if you can: do what you can easily do without anxious exactness. Lay the foundation, and leave the superstructure to posterity. I am, Sir, 'Your most humble servant, 'SAM. JOHNSON.