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... hope for continual happiness in this life ; few men , if any , enjoy it . I have a kind of be- lief that Edmund Burke does ; he has so much knowledge , so much animation , and the consciousness of so much fame . ' Letters of Boswell , p ...
... hope for continual happiness in this life ; few men , if any , enjoy it . I have a kind of be- lief that Edmund Burke does ; he has so much knowledge , so much animation , and the consciousness of so much fame . ' Letters of Boswell , p ...
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... hope it is . ' On Wednesday , April 3 , in the morning I found him very busy putting his books in order , and as they were generally very old ones , clouds of dust were flying around him . He had on a pair of large gloves such as ...
... hope it is . ' On Wednesday , April 3 , in the morning I found him very busy putting his books in order , and as they were generally very old ones , clouds of dust were flying around him . He had on a pair of large gloves such as ...
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... hope a fair and rational state of the matter , I presume to quote : ' The Juries of England are Judges of law as well as of fact , in many civil , and in all criminal trials . That my principles of resistance may not be misapprehended ...
... hope a fair and rational state of the matter , I presume to quote : ' The Juries of England are Judges of law as well as of fact , in many civil , and in all criminal trials . That my principles of resistance may not be misapprehended ...
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... hope of being one day succeeded in the profitable Brewery by the only son he had left , gave himself silently up to his grief , and fell in a few years a victim to it . ' In a second note ( ii . 22 ) he says : - ' The poor man could ...
... hope of being one day succeeded in the profitable Brewery by the only son he had left , gave himself silently up to his grief , and fell in a few years a victim to it . ' In a second note ( ii . 22 ) he says : - ' The poor man could ...
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... hope from the God of peace , more quiet than I have en- joyed for a long time . I had made no resolution , but as my heart grew lighter , my hopes revived , and my courage increased . ' Ib . p . 158 . ' Good Friday , 1778. I went with ...
... hope from the God of peace , more quiet than I have en- joyed for a long time . I had made no resolution , but as my heart grew lighter , my hopes revived , and my courage increased . ' Ib . p . 158 . ' Good Friday , 1778. I went with ...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 3 James Boswell Visualização integral - 1780 |
Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's ..., Volume 3;Volumes 1776-1780 James Boswell Visualização integral - 1887 |
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Página 380 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Página 455 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 455 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Página 381 - Poor stuff! No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Página 154 - It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates, and masters, the fear of death : and therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants, about him, that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it...
Página 302 - He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in travelling ; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
Página 72 - To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays, And yet deny the Careless Husband praise, Or say our fathers never broke a rule ; Why then, I say, the public is a fool.
Página 13 - I was never summoned to attend even the ceremony of a lecture; and, excepting one voluntary visit to his rooms during the eight months of his titular office, the tutor and pupil lived in the same college as strangers to...
Página 358 - Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.
Página 159 - Hermit hoar in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray : Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell, What is bliss? and which the way?