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... misery , must endeavour to obviate the danger . My considerations shall , on this occasion , be turned on such as are burdensome to themselves merely because they want subjects for reflection , and to whom the volume of nature is thrown ...
... misery , must endeavour to obviate the danger . My considerations shall , on this occasion , be turned on such as are burdensome to themselves merely because they want subjects for reflection , and to whom the volume of nature is thrown ...
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... misery . But these can only influence our conduct as they gain our attention , which the business or diversions of the world are always call- ing off by contrary attractions . The great art , therefore , of piety , and the end for which ...
... misery . But these can only influence our conduct as they gain our attention , which the business or diversions of the world are always call- ing off by contrary attractions . The great art , therefore , of piety , and the end for which ...
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... misery but its loss every other satisfaction which the bounty of Provi- dence has scattered over life , is neglected as incon- siderable in comparison of the great object which we have placed before us , and is thrown from us as ...
... misery but its loss every other satisfaction which the bounty of Provi- dence has scattered over life , is neglected as incon- siderable in comparison of the great object which we have placed before us , and is thrown from us as ...
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... misery , and who can please themselves with the enjoyment of that wealth which they never permit others to partake . From any censures of the world or reproaches of his conscience , he has an appeal to action and to knowledge and though ...
... misery , and who can please themselves with the enjoyment of that wealth which they never permit others to partake . From any censures of the world or reproaches of his conscience , he has an appeal to action and to knowledge and though ...
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... - rence of unhappy incidents should never be suffered to disturb us before they happen ; because , if the breast be once laid open to the dread of mere pos- sibilities of misery , life must be given a prey 166 ESSAYS , ETC.
... - rence of unhappy incidents should never be suffered to disturb us before they happen ; because , if the breast be once laid open to the dread of mere pos- sibilities of misery , life must be given a prey 166 ESSAYS , ETC.
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Página 52 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address ; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre...
Página 52 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, My Lord, Your Lordship's most humble Most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON.
Página 41 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Página 51 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Página 77 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become 120 A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Página 34 - Johnson: one, in particular, praised his impartiality ; observing, that he dealt out reason and eloquence, with an equal hand to both parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it.
Página 200 - If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pick • axe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are levelled and oceans bounded by the slender force of human beings.
Página 264 - There are many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their detection ; we therefore see whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyrick, and not to be known from one another but by extrinsick and casual circumstances. ' Let me remember, (says Hale) when I find myself inclined to pity a criminal, that there is likewise a. pity due to the country.
Página 260 - All joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves.
Página 261 - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.