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... matter ; and , after some time , it was suggested that it would be advisable to treat with Thrale , a sensible , active , honest man , who had been employed in the house , and to transfer the whole to him for thirty thou- sand pounds ...
... matter ; and , after some time , it was suggested that it would be advisable to treat with Thrale , a sensible , active , honest man , who had been employed in the house , and to transfer the whole to him for thirty thou- sand pounds ...
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... matter ; do favour us with it . " John- son with great good humour complied . He told them , " I found his Majesty wished I should talk , and I made it my business to talk . I find it does a man good to be talked to by his Sovereign ...
... matter ; do favour us with it . " John- son with great good humour complied . He told them , " I found his Majesty wished I should talk , and I made it my business to talk . I find it does a man good to be talked to by his Sovereign ...
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... matters , as if one should put the armour of Goliath upon ' a dwarf . The contrast might be laughable ; but the dignity of the armour must remain the same in all considerate minds . This malicious drollery , therefore , it may easily be ...
... matters , as if one should put the armour of Goliath upon ' a dwarf . The contrast might be laughable ; but the dignity of the armour must remain the same in all considerate minds . This malicious drollery , therefore , it may easily be ...
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... matter of such indifference , a matter about which the people care so very little , that were a man to be sent over Britain to offer them an ex- emption from it at a halfpenny a piece , very few would purchase it . " This was a specimen ...
... matter of such indifference , a matter about which the people care so very little , that were a man to be sent over Britain to offer them an ex- emption from it at a halfpenny a piece , very few would purchase it . " This was a specimen ...
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... matters , that she had ac- quired such a niceness of touch as to know , by the feeling on the outside of the cup , how near it was to being full . warm water is impregnated with salutiferous sub- stances , it H 2 ÆTAT . 60 . 99 DR ...
... matters , that she had ac- quired such a niceness of touch as to know , by the feeling on the outside of the cup , how near it was to being full . warm water is impregnated with salutiferous sub- stances , it H 2 ÆTAT . 60 . 99 DR ...
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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.