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... allowed to be con- nected with elevation and precedency , would ob- tain the same dignity in our imagination ? Why should not the knowledge , the skill , the expert- ness , the assiduity , and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce ...
... allowed to be con- nected with elevation and precedency , would ob- tain the same dignity in our imagination ? Why should not the knowledge , the skill , the expert- ness , the assiduity , and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce ...
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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 sal- vation 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 sal- vation of our own ...
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... allow that he deserves the very severe censure which Johnson pronounced upon him . His absurd preference of savage to civilized life and other singularities are proofs rather of a defect in his understanding than of any depravity in his ...
... allow that he deserves the very severe censure which Johnson pronounced upon him . His absurd preference of savage to civilized life and other singularities are proofs rather of a defect in his understanding than of any depravity in his ...
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... allow them more ; but , by this method , it appeared at once that the allowance was much more than sufficient for his small family : and this proved a clear conviction , that could not be answered , and saved all future dispute . He was ...
... allow them more ; but , by this method , it appeared at once that the allowance was much more than sufficient for his small family : and this proved a clear conviction , that could not be answered , and saved all future dispute . He was ...
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... allowed to go on . The following letters , though not written till the year after , being chiefly upon the same sub- ject , are here inserted . 66 TO MR . WILLIAM DRUMMOND . 66 DEAR SIR , " THAT my letter should have had such effects as ...
... allowed to go on . The following letters , though not written till the year after , being chiefly upon the same sub- ject , are here inserted . 66 TO MR . WILLIAM DRUMMOND . 66 DEAR SIR , " THAT my letter should have had such effects as ...
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66 DEAR SIR acquaintance admiration afraid answered appeared asked authour Beggar's Opera believe BENNET LANGTON called character church compliments consider conversation Court dined Edinburgh edition eminent England Erse favour Fleet Street Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope humble servant humour JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson judge King lady Langton laugh learning letter Lichfield literary live London Lord Bute Lord Hailes Lord Mansfield Lord Monboddo Lucy Porter manner ment mentioned merit mind nation never obliged observed occasion opinion Oxford perhaps pleased pleasure poem publick racter reason remark SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotch Scotland seemed Shakspeare Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds speak Streatham suppose sure talked tell thing thought Thrale tion told Tom Davies truth wish wonder write written wrote
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Página 363 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Página 326 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Página 190 - I believe they might be good beings ; but they were not fit to be in the University of Oxford. A cow is a very good animal in the field ; but we turn her out of a garden.
Página 213 - ... else that denoted his imbecility. I as much believe that he wrote it, as if I had seen him do it. Sir, had he shown it to any one friend, he would not have been allowed to publish it. He has, indeed, done it very well ; but it is a foolish thing well done. I suppose he has been so much elated with the success of his new comedy, that he has thought every thing that concerned him must be of importance to the public.
Página 123 - 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 173 - But, Sir, in the British Constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the Crown ". JoHNSON : " Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig. — Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the Crown ? The Crown has not power enough.
Página 323 - 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 90 - ... of the boats, and other circumstances, are all very good description ; but do not impress the mind at once with the horrible idea of immense height. The impression is divided ; you pass on by computation, from one stage of the tremendous space to another. Had the girl in ' The Mourning Bride' said, she could not cast h'er shoe to the top of one of the pillars in the temple, it would not have aided the idea, but weakened it.
Página 260 - I remember one day, when Tom Davies was telling that Dr. Johnson said — ' We are all in labour for a name to Goldy's play,' Goldsmith seemed displeased that such a liberty should be taken with his name, and said, ' I have often desired him not to call me Goldy.
Página 233 - For instance, (said he), the fable of the little fishes, who saw birds fly over their heads, and envying them, petitioned Jupiter to be changed into birds. The skill (continued he,) consists in making them talk like little fishes.