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... having been the cause of his liberation . From this time he seems to have taken a more active part in the great political events of the period . In 1623 he was returned member for Lancaster , and in the first two years xiv PREFACE .
... having been the cause of his liberation . From this time he seems to have taken a more active part in the great political events of the period . In 1623 he was returned member for Lancaster , and in the first two years xiv PREFACE .
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... taken at being re- quired to give a bond as security for the loan of a manuscript . It was therefore left at the disposal of his executors , but he directed it not to be sold , they had intended bestowing it on the society of the Inner ...
... taken at being re- quired to give a bond as security for the loan of a manuscript . It was therefore left at the disposal of his executors , but he directed it not to be sold , they had intended bestowing it on the society of the Inner ...
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... taken away , they cease to vote ; therefore there is not the same reason for them as for temporal lords . Answ . We do not pretend they have that power the same way , but they have a right : he that has an office in Westminster - hall ...
... taken away , they cease to vote ; therefore there is not the same reason for them as for temporal lords . Answ . We do not pretend they have that power the same way , but they have a right : he that has an office in Westminster - hall ...
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... , in all the reason in the world . 11. How shall the clergy be in the par- liament if the bishops are taken away ? Answ . By the laity , because the bishops in whom the rest of the clergy are included , are sent C 2 TABLE TALK . 17.
... , in all the reason in the world . 11. How shall the clergy be in the par- liament if the bishops are taken away ? Answ . By the laity , because the bishops in whom the rest of the clergy are included , are sent C 2 TABLE TALK . 17.
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... taken off , and offered any preferment in the church , that he would make choice of . Luther answered , if he had offered half as much at first , he would have accepted it , but now he had gone so far he could not come back ; in truth ...
... taken off , and offered any preferment in the church , that he would make choice of . Luther answered , if he had offered half as much at first , he would have accepted it , but now he had gone so far he could not come back ; in truth ...
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allow Answ appears asked Beggar's Opera believe better bishops Boswell called character Christian church church of England church of Rome Cibber clergy Colley Cibber common consider conversation death divines drinking England English Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happiness hath hear honour House of Commons JOHN SELDEN Johnson observed judge keep king lady land laugh learning live London Lord man's mankind marriage matter means mentioned merit mind nation nature never occasion once opinion Papists parliament person pleased pleasure poem poet pope pounds praise preach presbyters pretty woman prince punishment reason religion sermons shewed Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds Sir said Johnson speak suppose sure talk tell Theocritus thing Thirty-nine Articles thought tion told truth wine wish woman words write
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Página 180 - And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so? 23 Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil : but if well, why smitest thou me?
Página 59 - Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good to the common people, and which clergymen of genius and learning ought to do from a principle of duty, when it is suited to their congregations ; a practice for which they will be praised by men of sense.
Página 93 - Why, sir, if the fellow does not think as he speaks, he is lying : and I see not what honour he can propose to himself from having the character of a liar. But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
Página 66 - I hate by-roads in education. Education is as well known, and has long been as well known as ever it can be. Endeavouring to make children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ? It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much time and labour of the teacher can never be repaid. Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed. Miss (') was an instance of early cultivation,...
Página 106 - talk no more of that. You are, perhaps, the worst — eh, eh ! " — Goldsmith was eagerly attempting to interrupt him, when Garrick went on, laughing ironically, " Nay, you will always look like a gentleman ; but I am talking of being well or ill drest."
Página 26 - But is not the fear of death natural to man?" JOHNSON. " So much so, sir, that the whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of it.
Página 22 - You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain ; and you have often given me pain, not from the power of what you said, but from seeing your intention.
Página 146 - It is rarely well executed. They only who live with a man can write his life with any genuine exactness and discrimination ; and few people who have lived with a man know what to remark about him.
Página 150 - Sir, you do not know it to be good or bad till the Judge determines it. I have said that you are to state facts fairly ; so that your thinking, or what you call knowing, a cause to be bad, must be from reasoning ; must be from your supposing your arguments to be weak and inconclusive.
Página 95 - I have often blamed myself, Sir, for not feeling for others, as sensibly as many say they do." JOHNSON. "Sir, don't be duped by them any more. You will find these very feeling people are not very ready to do you good. They pay you by feeling.