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... death . As I had the honour and happiness of enjoying his friend- ship for upwards of twenty years ; as I had the scheme of writing his life constantly in view ; as he was well apprised of this circumstance , and from time to time ...
... death . As I had the honour and happiness of enjoying his friend- ship for upwards of twenty years ; as I had the scheme of writing his life constantly in view ; as he was well apprised of this circumstance , and from time to time ...
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... death , have laid hold of this circum- stance , and insisted upon it with very unfair aggravation . The history of his mind as to religion is an important article . I have mentioned the early impressions made upon his tender imagination ...
... death , have laid hold of this circum- stance , and insisted upon it with very unfair aggravation . The history of his mind as to religion is an important article . I have mentioned the early impressions made upon his tender imagination ...
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... death he sent to that College a present of all his works , to be deposited in their library ; and he had thoughts of leaving to it his house at Lichfield ; but his friends who were about him very properly dissuaded him from it , and he ...
... death he sent to that College a present of all his works , to be deposited in their library ; and he had thoughts of leaving to it his house at Lichfield ; but his friends who were about him very properly dissuaded him from it , and he ...
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... death . Miss Porter told me , that when he was first introduced to her mother , his appearance was very forbidding : he was then lean and lank , so that his immense structure of bones was hideously striking to the eye , and the scars of ...
... death . Miss Porter told me , that when he was first introduced to her mother , his appearance was very forbidding : he was then lean and lank , so that his immense structure of bones was hideously striking to the eye , and the scars of ...
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... death . He now set up a private academy , for which purpose he hired a large house , well situated near his native city . In the Gentleman's Magazine for 1736 , there is the following advertisement : ' At Edial , near Lichfield , in ...
... death . He now set up a private academy , for which purpose he hired a large house , well situated near his native city . In the Gentleman's Magazine for 1736 , there is the following advertisement : ' At Edial , near Lichfield , in ...
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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.