The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll. D.: Containing essays, tracts, and JourneyJ. Haddon, 1820 |
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... mind , or employ his fingers ; and if I might venture to offer him a sub- ject , I should wish that he would solve this ques- tion , Why he that has nothing to write should de- sire to be a writer ? Yet is not this letter without some ...
... mind , or employ his fingers ; and if I might venture to offer him a sub- ject , I should wish that he would solve this ques- tion , Why he that has nothing to write should de- sire to be a writer ? Yet is not this letter without some ...
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... mind increase felicity : every madman is either arrogant and irascible , or gloomy and suspicious , or possessed by some passion or notion destructive to his quiet . He has always discontent in his look , and malignity in his bosom ...
... mind increase felicity : every madman is either arrogant and irascible , or gloomy and suspicious , or possessed by some passion or notion destructive to his quiet . He has always discontent in his look , and malignity in his bosom ...
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... mind his account is still less reasonable . " Whilst men are injured , they must be inflamed with anger ; and whilst they see cruel- ties , they must be melted with pity ; whilst they perceive danger , they must be sensible of fear ...
... mind his account is still less reasonable . " Whilst men are injured , they must be inflamed with anger ; and whilst they see cruel- ties , they must be melted with pity ; whilst they perceive danger , they must be sensible of fear ...
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... minds of some , whose opinions it were indecent to despise , and who by their inte- grity well deserve to have their doubts appeased . 4 Every diffuse and complicated question may be examined by different methods , upon different prin ...
... minds of some , whose opinions it were indecent to despise , and who by their inte- grity well deserve to have their doubts appeased . 4 Every diffuse and complicated question may be examined by different methods , upon different prin ...
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... mind , who , instead of lending them his name , calmly reproves them for being seducers of the people . You who are here , says he , complaining of vena- lity , are yourselves the agents of those who , having estimated themselves at too ...
... mind , who , instead of lending them his name , calmly reproves them for being seducers of the people . You who are here , says he , complaining of vena- lity , are yourselves the agents of those who , having estimated themselves at too ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 391 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible.
Página 174 - That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property, and they have never ceded to any sovereign power whatever, a right to dispose of either without their consent.
Página 48 - The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it...
Página 249 - An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from her care, and disinherited of her favours, left in its original elemental state, or quickened only with -one sullen power of useless vegetation.
Página 285 - We were entertained with the usual hospitality by Mr. Macdonald, and his lady Flora Macdonald, a name that will be mentioned in history, and, if courage and fidelity be virtues, mentioned with honour.
Página 177 - British parliament, as are, bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation, internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America, without their consent.
Página 176 - That by such emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are, entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
Página 271 - If an epicure could remove by a wish, in quest of sensual gratifications, wherever he had supped he would breakfast in Scotland.
Página 219 - His history is written with elegance and vigour, but his fabulousness and credulity are justly blamed. His fabulousness. if he was the author of the fictions, is a fault for which no apology can be made ; but his credulity may be excused in an age when all men were credulous.
Página 177 - ... we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament, as are, bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members...