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... less flogging in our great schools than formerly , but then less is learned there ; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other . " He thus discriminated , to Dr. Percy , bishop of Dromore , his progress at his two ...
... less flogging in our great schools than formerly , but then less is learned there ; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other . " He thus discriminated , to Dr. Percy , bishop of Dromore , his progress at his two ...
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... less exercised in it : and I think the same cause will explain the difference of excellence in other things , gradations admit- ting always some difference in the first princi- ples . " Mr. Langton said , he was about to establish a ...
... less exercised in it : and I think the same cause will explain the difference of excellence in other things , gradations admit- ting always some difference in the first princi- ples . " Mr. Langton said , he was about to establish a ...
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... less inclined to work ; but when every body learns to read and write , it is no longer a distinction . A man who has a laced waistcoat is too fine a man to work ; but if every body had laced waistcoats , we should have people working in ...
... less inclined to work ; but when every body learns to read and write , it is no longer a distinction . A man who has a laced waistcoat is too fine a man to work ; but if every body had laced waistcoats , we should have people working in ...
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... less , even were it known to be true . Knowledge of all kinds is good . Conjecture , as to things useful , is good ; but conjecture as to what it would be use- less to know , such as whether men went upon all four , is very idle . " He ...
... less , even were it known to be true . Knowledge of all kinds is good . Conjecture , as to things useful , is good ; but conjecture as to what it would be use- less to know , such as whether men went upon all four , is very idle . " He ...
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... : friends have risen up for him on every side ; yet if he should be hanged , none of them will eat a slice of plum - pudding the less . Sir , that sympathetic feeling goes a very little way in depressing the mind 28 JOHNSONIANA .
... : friends have risen up for him on every side ; yet if he should be hanged , none of them will eat a slice of plum - pudding the less . Sir , that sympathetic feeling goes a very little way in depressing the mind 28 JOHNSONIANA .
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afterwards appeared asked Beauclerk Beggar's Opera believe better Boswell mentioned Boswell talked Burney character church Colley Cibber consider conversation David Garrick dine doubt drinking eminent England fellow Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear heard honour human humour instance Jacobite John Johnson observed judge king king of Prussia knew lady Langton laugh learning Lichfield literary live London lord Lord Bute lord Chesterfield lord Mansfield Lord Monboddo madam mankind manner marriage mean merit mind moral never occasion once opinion pleased poem poor principles racter religion remark Robert Dodsley says Boswell Scotch Scotland sion Sir Joshua Reynolds speak spect spirit strong suppose sure tell thing thought Thrale tion told Tom Davies true truth wine wish woman wonder write wrong
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Página 16 - Majesty with profound respect, but still in his firm manly manner, with a sonorous voice, and never in that subdued tone which is commonly used at the levee and in the drawing-room.
Página 34 - An historian ! My dear Sir, you surely will not rank his compilation of the Roman History with the works of other historians of this age ?
Página 40 - Madness frequently discovers itself merely by unnecessary deviation from the usual modes of the world. My poor friend Smart showed the disturbance of his mind, by falling upon his knees, and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place. Now although, rationally speaking, it is greater madness not to pray at all than to pray as Smart did, I am afraid there are so many who do not pray that their understanding is not called in question.
Página 109 - Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.
Página 168 - ... appearing to be clearly of one opinion when you are in reality of another opinion, does not such dissimulation impair one's honesty ? Is there not some danger that a, lawyer may put on the same mask in common life, in the intercourse with his friends?
Página 104 - Why, Sir, if the fellow does not think as he speaks, he is lying; and I see not what honour he can propose to himself from having the character of a liar. But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
Página 80 - I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects ; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!
Página 12 - No man could have paid a handsomer compliment '; and it was fit for a king to pay. It was decisive." When asked by another friend, at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, whether he made any reply to this high compliment, he answered " No, sir. When the king had said it, it was to be so. It was not for me to bandy civilities with my sovereign.
Página 162 - A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of traveling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean.
Página 105 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.