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... Hume at an assembly , boldly ac- costed him in these words : - " Mr. Hume , give me leave to introduce myself to you ; we deists ought to know each other . " " Madame , " replied Hume , " I am no deist . I do not style myself so ...
... Hume at an assembly , boldly ac- costed him in these words : - " Mr. Hume , give me leave to introduce myself to you ; we deists ought to know each other . " " Madame , " replied Hume , " I am no deist . I do not style myself so ...
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... Hume owned to a clergyman in the bishoprick of Durham , that he had never read the New Testament with attention . ' I mentioned Hume's notion ' , that all who are happy are equally happy ; a little miss with a new gown at a dancing ...
... Hume owned to a clergyman in the bishoprick of Durham , that he had never read the New Testament with attention . ' I mentioned Hume's notion ' , that all who are happy are equally happy ; a little miss with a new gown at a dancing ...
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... . I never could advance my curiosity to conviction ; but came away at last only willing to believe . ' See also post , March 24 , 1775. Hume said of the evidence in favour of I talked Aetat . 57. ] Rousseau and Wilkes . II I.
... . I never could advance my curiosity to conviction ; but came away at last only willing to believe . ' See also post , March 24 , 1775. Hume said of the evidence in favour of I talked Aetat . 57. ] Rousseau and Wilkes . II I.
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... Hume , i . 480 . 1 ' I love anecdotes , ' said Johnson . Boswell's Hebrides , Aug. 16 , 1773. Bos- well said that ... Hume a few weeks before this conversation was held , and was at this time in Chiswick . Hume's Private Corres , pp ...
... Hume , i . 480 . 1 ' I love anecdotes , ' said Johnson . Boswell's Hebrides , Aug. 16 , 1773. Bos- well said that ... Hume a few weeks before this conversation was held , and was at this time in Chiswick . Hume's Private Corres , pp ...
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... Hume's Private Corres . , p . 165 . Miss Burney , in her preface to Evelina , a novel which was her in- troduction to Johnson's strong affec- tion , mentioning Rousseau and John- son , adds in a footnote : - ' However superior the ...
... Hume's Private Corres . , p . 165 . Miss Burney , in her preface to Evelina , a novel which was her in- troduction to Johnson's strong affec- tion , mentioning Rousseau and John- son , adds in a footnote : - ' However superior the ...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 2 James Boswell Visualização integral - 1887 |
Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 2 James Boswell Visualização integral - 1891 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration Aetat Anec answered ante April April 15 April 28 asked authority Baretti Beauclerk believe BENNET LANGTON Boswell's Hebrides Burke Burney called character church compliments conversation Corsica Court Croker DEAR SIR dined edition England English favour Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy honour hope Horace Walpole humble servant Hume J. H. Burton JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson King lady Langton laugh learning Letters of Boswell Lichfield live London Lord Bute Lord Mansfield manner March March 21 Memoirs mentioned mind nation never observed opinion Oxford Paoli passage perhaps Piozzi Letters pleased pleasure poem Pope publick published reason Reynolds SAMUEL JOHNSON says Scotch Scotland seems Sept shewed Sir Joshua speak Streatham suppose talked tell thing thought Thrale tion told wish write written wrote
Passagens conhecidas
Página 317 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Página 78 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften and concluded to give the coppers.
Página 338 - 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 3 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Página 119 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
Página 360 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 313 - I wondered to hear him say of " Gulliver's Travels," " When once you have thought of big men and little men, it is very easy to do all the rest.
Página 84 - Shakespeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of design that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestic wisdom. It was said of Euripides that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.
Página 321 - He attacked Gray, calling him " a dull fellow." BOSWELL : " 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 every where.' He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him GREAT. He was a mechanical poet.
Página 446 - ... house, as if it were his own. Whereas, at a tavern, there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome: and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No...