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... nature of the human mind , that it always takes hold of every mind that ap- proaches it ; and as it is wonderfully fortified and corroborated by an unanimity of sentiments , so is it shocked and disturbed by any con- trariety ...
... nature of the human mind , that it always takes hold of every mind that ap- proaches it ; and as it is wonderfully fortified and corroborated by an unanimity of sentiments , so is it shocked and disturbed by any con- trariety ...
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... Nature , in which that cele- brated mathematician is represented as being subject to fits of yawning so violent as to render him incapable of proceeding in his lecture ; a story altogether unfounded , but for the pub- lication of which ...
... Nature , in which that cele- brated mathematician is represented as being subject to fits of yawning so violent as to render him incapable of proceeding in his lecture ; a story altogether unfounded , but for the pub- lication of which ...
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... natural to suppose that he told his story in his own way ; and it is certain that he was not " a very sturdy moralist . " [ The quotation is from Johnson's Works , ix . 116. ] This explanation appears to me very satisfactory . It is ...
... natural to suppose that he told his story in his own way ; and it is certain that he was not " a very sturdy moralist . " [ The quotation is from Johnson's Works , ix . 116. ] This explanation appears to me very satisfactory . It is ...
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... natural , that , though it will perhaps not be said of him as he says of himself , that he is " a man not easily jealous , " yet we cannot but pity him , when at last we find him " perplexed in the extreme . " ' Johnson's Works , v ...
... natural , that , though it will perhaps not be said of him as he says of himself , that he is " a man not easily jealous , " yet we cannot but pity him , when at last we find him " perplexed in the extreme . " ' Johnson's Works , v ...
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... prehensive and miscellaneous that he may accommodate himself with a topick from every scene of life , or view of nature , it is no great aggra- vation of his task to be obliged to He Aetat . 67. ] Cumberland's ODES . 43 He said.
... prehensive and miscellaneous that he may accommodate himself with a topick from every scene of life , or view of nature , it is no great aggra- vation of his task to be obliged to He Aetat . 67. ] Cumberland's ODES . 43 He said.
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 3 James Boswell Visualização integral - 1780 |
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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?