The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and additions to the first edition, Volume 21822 |
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... less presumptuous car , " Wide o'er the fields of glory bear " Two coursers of ethereal race , 64 With necks in thunder cloath'd , and long resounding pace . " Ode on the Progress of Poesy . and the concluding ten lines , except the ...
... less presumptuous car , " Wide o'er the fields of glory bear " Two coursers of ethereal race , 64 With necks in thunder cloath'd , and long resounding pace . " Ode on the Progress of Poesy . and the concluding ten lines , except the ...
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... less practice . Now , Sir , the good I can do by my conversation bears the same proportion to the good I can do by my writings , that the practice of a physician , retired to a small town , does to his practice in a great city ...
... less practice . Now , Sir , the good I can do by my conversation bears the same proportion to the good I can do by my writings , that the practice of a physician , retired to a small town , does to his practice in a great city ...
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... less than the tenth part of his income was set apart for charity : at the time of his death , the sum of twenty - five pounds was found , with a direction to be employed in such uses . " He had laid down a plan of living proportioned to ...
... less than the tenth part of his income was set apart for charity : at the time of his death , the sum of twenty - five pounds was found , with a direction to be employed in such uses . " He had laid down a plan of living proportioned to ...
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... less the object will appear . ' " Why , ( re- plied the King , ) this is not only telling an untruth , but telling it clumsily ; for , if that be the case , every one who can look through a microscope will be able to de- tect him ...
... less the object will appear . ' " Why , ( re- plied the King , ) this is not only telling an untruth , but telling it clumsily ; for , if that be the case , every one who can look through a microscope will be able to de- tect him ...
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... less and less , till we are almost un- connected with the world ; and then it must soon be our turn to drop into the grave . There is always this consolation , that we have one Protector who can never be lost but by our own fault , and ...
... less and less , till we are almost un- connected with the world ; and then it must soon be our turn to drop into the grave . There is always this consolation , that we have one Protector who can never be lost but by our own fault , and ...
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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.