The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and additions to the first edition, Volume 21822 |
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... allowed at all , they should only be retreats for persons unable to serve the publick , or who have served it . It is our first duty to serve society ; and , after we have done that , we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own ...
... allowed at all , they should only be retreats for persons unable to serve the publick , or who have served it . It is our first duty to serve society ; and , after we have done that , we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own ...
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... allowed in a court of jus- tice . Rousseau , Sir , is a very bad man . I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation , than that of any felon who has gone from the Old Bailey these many years . Yes , I should like to have him ...
... allowed in a court of jus- tice . Rousseau , Sir , is a very bad man . I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation , than that of any felon who has gone from the Old Bailey these many years . Yes , I should like to have him ...
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... allow that he deserves the very severe censure which Johnson pronounced upon him . His absurd preference of savage to civilised life , and other singularities , are proofs rather of a defect in his understanding , than of any depravity ...
... allow that he deserves the very severe censure which Johnson pronounced upon him . His absurd preference of savage to civilised life , and other singularities , are proofs rather of a defect in his understanding , than of any depravity ...
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... allow- ance of a hogshead in a month , was not enough for his own family , he ordered the quantity of a hogshead to be put into bottles , had it locked up from the servants , and distributed out , every day , eight quarts , which is the ...
... allow- ance of a hogshead in a month , was not enough for his own family , he ordered the quantity of a hogshead to be put into bottles , had it locked up from the servants , and distributed out , every day , eight quarts , which is the ...
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... allowed to go on . The following letters , though not written till the year after , being chiefly upon the same subject , are here inserted . " TO MR . WILLIAM DRUMMOND . " DEAR SIR , " THAT my letter should have had such effects as you ...
... allowed to go on . The following letters , though not written till the year after , being chiefly upon the same subject , are here inserted . " TO MR . WILLIAM DRUMMOND . " DEAR SIR , " THAT my letter should have had such effects as you ...
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Página 301 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Página 207 - Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem to think; for if you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like WHALES.
Página 424 - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Página 314 - He made the common remark on the unhappiness which men who have led a busy life experience, when they retire in expectation of enjoying themselves at ease, and that they generally languish for want of their habitual occupation, and wish to return to it. He mentioned as strong an instance of this as can well be imagined.
Página 150 - But, Sir, in the British Constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the Crown ". JoHNSON : " Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig. — Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the Crown ? The Crown has not power enough.
Página 112 - the poor in England were better provided for than in any other country of the same extent: he did not mean little Cantons, or petty Republicks. Where a great proportion of the people...
Página 205 - ... that the fear of something made him resolve ; it is upon the state of his mind, after the resolution is taken, that I argue. Suppose a man either from fear, or pride, or conscience, or whatever motive, has resolved to kill himself; when once the resolution is taken, he has nothing to fear. He may then go and take the King of Prussia by the nose, at the head of his army. He cannot fear the rack, who is resolved to kill himself. When Eustace...
Página 1 - Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. A peasant has not capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher.
Página 211 - Yet there is no man whose company is more liked.' JOHNSON. 'To be sure, Sir. When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer, their inferiour while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.