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... true . A woman of fortune being used to the handling of money , spends it judiciously but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage , has such a gust in spending it , that she throws it away with great ...
... true . A woman of fortune being used to the handling of money , spends it judiciously but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage , has such a gust in spending it , that she throws it away with great ...
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... true ; for they have nothing good enough to keep a man of eminent learning with them for his life . In the foreign Uni- versities a professorship is a high thing . It is as much almost as a man can make by his learning ; and therefore ...
... true ; for they have nothing good enough to keep a man of eminent learning with them for his life . In the foreign Uni- versities a professorship is a high thing . It is as much almost as a man can make by his learning ; and therefore ...
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... true , in every material circum- stance : -Shiels was the principal collector and digester of the materials for the work : but as he was very raw in authourship , an indifferent writer in prose , and his language full of Scotticisms ...
... true , in every material circum- stance : -Shiels was the principal collector and digester of the materials for the work : but as he was very raw in authourship , an indifferent writer in prose , and his language full of Scotticisms ...
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... true , you have now shortened Mrs. Thrale's life , perhaps , some minutes , by ac- celerating her pulsation . " On Thursday , April 11 , I dined with him at VOL . III . 7 Sir Edward Barry , Baronet . D Etat . 67 . 1776. General Paoli's ...
... true , you have now shortened Mrs. Thrale's life , perhaps , some minutes , by ac- celerating her pulsation . " On Thursday , April 11 , I dined with him at VOL . III . 7 Sir Edward Barry , Baronet . D Etat . 67 . 1776. General Paoli's ...
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... true poetical genius , the power of viewing every thing in a poetical light . His fault is such a cloud of words sometimes , that the sense can hardly peep through . Shiels , who compiled Cibber's Lives of the poets , ' was one day ...
... true poetical genius , the power of viewing every thing in a poetical light . His fault is such a cloud of words sometimes , that the sense can hardly peep through . Shiels , who compiled Cibber's Lives of the poets , ' was one day ...
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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.