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... character ; and as I have spared no pains in obtaining materials concerning him , from every quarter where I could discover that they were to be found , and have been favoured with the most liberal communica- tions by his friends ; I ...
... character ; and as I have spared no pains in obtaining materials concerning him , from every quarter where I could discover that they were to be found , and have been favoured with the most liberal communica- tions by his friends ; I ...
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... character is more fully under- stood and illustrated . Indeed I cannot conceive a more perfect mode of writing any man's life , than not only relating all the most impor- tant events of it in their order , but interweaving what he ...
... character is more fully under- stood and illustrated . Indeed I cannot conceive a more perfect mode of writing any man's life , than not only relating all the most impor- tant events of it in their order , but interweaving what he ...
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... character- istick , and always amusing , when they relate to a distin- guished man . I am therefore exceedingly unwilling that any thing , however slight , which my illustrious friend thought it worth his while to express , with any ...
... character- istick , and always amusing , when they relate to a distin- guished man . I am therefore exceedingly unwilling that any thing , however slight , which my illustrious friend thought it worth his while to express , with any ...
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... character . When he was going to Oxford , she came to take leave of him , brought him , in the simplicity of her kindness , a present of gingerbread , and said , he was the best scholar she ever had . He delighted in mentioning this ...
... character . When he was going to Oxford , she came to take leave of him , brought him , in the simplicity of her kindness , a present of gingerbread , and said , he was the best scholar she ever had . He delighted in mentioning this ...
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... character in the learned world is well known . ' Indeed Johnson was very sensible how much he owed to Mr. Hunter ... characters , is often a matter of undecided contest , being as clear in his case as the superiority of stature in some ...
... character in the learned world is well known . ' Indeed Johnson was very sensible how much he owed to Mr. Hunter ... characters , is often a matter of undecided contest , being as clear in his case as the superiority of stature in some ...
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Página 127 - At supper this night he talked of good eating with uncommon satisfaction. ' Some people (said he,) have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully ; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
Página 16 - When at Oxford I took up Law's 'Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book, (as such books generally are) and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational enquiry.
Página 253 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Página 553 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
Página 230 - I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
Página 64 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. " Seven years, my Lord, have now passed, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of...
Página 95 - I now felt myself much mortified, and began to think that the hope which I had long indulged of obtaining his acquaintance was blasted. And, in truth, had not my ardour been uncommonly strong, and my resolution uncommonly persevering, so rough a reception might have deterred me for ever from making any further attempts. Fortunately, however, I remained upon the field not wholly discomfited ; and was soon rewarded by hearing some of his conversation, of which I preserved the following short minute,...
Página 119 - ... but then the dogs are not so good scholars. Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.
Página 548 - I was disobedient : I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault. I went to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood for a considerable time bare-headed in the rain, on the spot where my father's stall used to stand. In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory.
Página 94 - Mr. Davies mentioned my name, and respectfully introduced me to him. I was much agitated; and recollecting his prejudice against the Scotch, of which I had heard much, I said to Davies, " Don't tell where I come from." —" From Scotland," cried Davies, roguishly. " Mr. Johnson," said I, " I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it.