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... thing intellectual , every thing abstract politicks , morals , and religion , must be darkly guessed . Dr. Johnson was of the same opinion . He upon another occasion , when a friend mentioned to him several extraordinary facts , as ...
... thing intellectual , every thing abstract politicks , morals , and religion , must be darkly guessed . Dr. Johnson was of the same opinion . He upon another occasion , when a friend mentioned to him several extraordinary facts , as ...
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... thing more than a livelihood . To be sure a man , who has enough without teaching , will probably not teach ; for we would all be idle if we could . In the same manner , a man who is to get nothing by teach- ing , will not exert himself ...
... thing more than a livelihood . To be sure a man , who has enough without teaching , will probably not teach ; for we would all be idle if we could . In the same manner , a man who is to get nothing by teach- ing , will not exert himself ...
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... thing . He shewed me a translation which he had made of Ovid's Epistles , very prettily done . There is a good engraved portrait of him by Pether , from a picture by Fry , which hangs in the hall of the Scriveners ' com- pany . I ...
... thing . He shewed me a translation which he had made of Ovid's Epistles , very prettily done . There is a good engraved portrait of him by Pether , from a picture by Fry , which hangs in the hall of the Scriveners ' com- pany . I ...
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... things ; but there is no end of objections . There are few books to which some . objection or other may not be made . " He added , " I would not have you read any thing else of Cheyne , but his book on Health , and his English Malady ...
... things ; but there is no end of objections . There are few books to which some . objection or other may not be made . " He added , " I would not have you read any thing else of Cheyne , but his book on Health , and his English Malady ...
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... thing , probably , twenty times before . " 1 Of a nobleman raised at a very early period to high office , he said , " His parts , Sir , are pretty well for a Lord ; but would not be distinguished in a man who had nothing else but his ...
... thing , probably , twenty times before . " 1 Of a nobleman raised at a very early period to high office , he said , " His parts , Sir , are pretty well for a Lord ; but would not be distinguished in a man who had nothing else but his ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
acquaintance admirable Ætat affectionate afterwards appeared April Ashbourne Auchinleck authour Beauclerk believe Bishop booksellers censure character Cibber consider conversation Court of Session DEAR SIR death Dilly dined dinner Dodd drink Edinburgh English entertained Etat favour Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope House of Lords Hugh Blair humble servant humour JAMES BOSWELL John kind lady Langton late learned letter liberty Lichfield lived London Lord Lord Monboddo Lordship Lucy Porter Madam MALONE ment mentioned mind never obliged observed once opinion Percy perhaps pleased pleasure poem Poets Pope praise publick recollect respect Reverend SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotland sermons shewed Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talked Taylor tell thing thought Thrale tion told truth Whig Wilkes wine wish words write wrote
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Página 220 - How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes T' and in his conversation with Mr.
Página 196 - Why, Sir, you \ find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. \ No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Página 318 - ... to certainty, freedom ceases, because that cannot be certainly foreknown which is not certain at the time; but if it be certain at the time, it is a contradiction in terms to maintain that there can be afterwards any contingency dependent upon the exercise of will or any thing else." JOHNSON. " All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Página 398 - ... perpetual jarring of those whom he charitably accommodated under his roof. He has sometimes suffered me to talk jocularly of his group of females, and call them his Seraglio. He thus mentions them, together with honest Levett, in one of his letters to Mrs. Thrale : " Williams hates every body ; Levett hates Desmoulins, and does not love Williams ; Desmoulins hates them both ; Poll loves none of them.
Página 377 - He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all.
Página 35 - 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 travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean.
Página 67 - Provided, sir, I suppose, that the company which he is to have, is agreeable to you." JOHNSON. "What do you mean, sir? What do you take me for? Do you think I am so ignorant of the world as to imagine that I am to prescribe to a gentleman what company he is to have at his table?
Página 66 - Notwithstanding the high veneration which I entertained for Dr. Johnson, I was sensible that he was sometimes a little actuated by the spirit of contradiction, and by means of that I hoped I should gain my point. I was persuaded that if I had come upon him with a direct proposal, "Sir, will you dine in company with Jack Wilkes?" he would have flown into a passion, and would probably have answered, "Dine with Jack Wilkes, Sir ! I'd as soon dine with Jack Ketch.
Página 332 - I am a straggler. I may leave this town and go to Grand Cairo, without being missed here or observed there." EDWARDS. "Don't you eat supper, Sir?
Página 32 - Reviewers (said he) are not Deists ; but they are Christians with as little Christianity as may be ; and are for pulling down all establishments. The Critical Reviewers are for supporting the constitution, both in church and state. The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the books through ; but lay hold of a topick, and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly Reviewers are duller men, and are glad to read the books through.