The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 11F. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... degree of guilt , to that of calumniating a good and gentle , or defending a wicked and oppressive administration . It is therefore with the utmost satisfaction of mind , that I reflect how often I have employed my pen in vindication of ...
... degree of guilt , to that of calumniating a good and gentle , or defending a wicked and oppressive administration . It is therefore with the utmost satisfaction of mind , that I reflect how often I have employed my pen in vindication of ...
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... degree : some few of the ancient Barons seem indeed to have been disordered by it ; but the contagion has been for the most part timely checked , and our ladies have been generally free . But there has been in every age a set of men ...
... degree : some few of the ancient Barons seem indeed to have been disordered by it ; but the contagion has been for the most part timely checked , and our ladies have been generally free . But there has been in every age a set of men ...
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... degrees , and that I shall live to see a malecontent writer earnestly soliciting for the copy of a play , which he had delivered to the licenser twenty years before . Let I waited , says he , often on the licenser , and with the utmost ...
... degrees , and that I shall live to see a malecontent writer earnestly soliciting for the copy of a play , which he had delivered to the licenser twenty years before . Let I waited , says he , often on the licenser , and with the utmost ...
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... degree of perverseness ; yet such is the daily behaviour of our adversaries , who have never yet been satisfied with any reasons that have been offered by us . They have made it their practice to demand once a - year the reasons for ...
... degree of perverseness ; yet such is the daily behaviour of our adversaries , who have never yet been satisfied with any reasons that have been offered by us . They have made it their practice to demand once a - year the reasons for ...
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... degrees upon our minds in the days of leisure and retirement which are now approaching , and perhaps fill us with such surmises as may at least very much embarrass our affairs . The law by which the Swedes justified their oppo- sition ...
... degrees upon our minds in the days of leisure and retirement which are now approaching , and perhaps fill us with such surmises as may at least very much embarrass our affairs . The law by which the Swedes justified their oppo- sition ...
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Página 475 - Fortunate senex! ergo tua rura manebunt, Et tibi magna satis; quamvis lapis omnia nudus, Limosoque palus obducat pascua junco: Non insueta graves tentabunt pabula foetas, Nee mala vicini pecoris contagia loedent.
Página 318 - This praise the general interest of mankind requires to be given to writers who please and do not corrupt, who instruct and do not weary. But to them all human eulogies are vain, whom I believe applauded by angels, and numbered with the juat.
Página 516 - ... a generation of Amazons of the pen, who with the spirit of their predecessors have set masculine tyranny at defiance, asserted their claim to the regions of science, and seem resolved to contest the usurpations of virility.
Página 372 - The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But, to return, and view the cheerful skies — In this the task and mighty labour lies.
Página 416 - Horace becomes graceful and familiar ; and that such a compliment was at least possible, we know from the transformation feigned by Horace of himself. The most elegant compliment that was paid to Addison, is of this obscure and perishable kind ; When panting Virtue her last efforts made, You brought your Clio to the virgin's aid.
Página 242 - Johnson candidly describes himself as " a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has for many years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant ; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool ; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnights, and with tea welcomes the morning.
Página 274 - Abelard; while the facts and characters alluded to in his late writings will be forgotten and unknown, and their poignancy and propriety little relished ; for wit and satire are transitory and perishable, but nature and passion are eternal.
Página 270 - Nothing but experience could evince the frequency of false information, or enable any man to conceive that so many groundless reports should be propagated, as every man of eminence may hear of himself. Some men relate what they think, as what they know ; some men of confused memories and habitual inaccuracy, ascribe [ 34 ] to one man what belongs to another; and some talk on, without thought or care.
Página 498 - Two men examining the same question proceed commonly like the physician and gardener in. selecting herbs, or the farmer and hero looking on the plain ; they bring minds impressed with different notions, and direct their inquiries to different ends ; they form, therefore, contrary conclusions, and each wonders at the other's absurdity. We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves.
Página 450 - Paris in his twenty-first year, and affixed on the gate of the college of Navarre a kind of challenge to the learned of that...