The life of Samuel Johnson. [Followed by] The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, Band 21851 |
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... allowed at all , they should only be retreats for persons unable to serve the public , or who have served it . It is our first duty to serve society ; and , after we have done that , we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own ...
... allowed at all , they should only be retreats for persons unable to serve the public , or who have served it . It is our first duty to serve society ; and , after we have done that , we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own ...
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... allowed in a court of justice . Rousseau , Sir , is a very bad man . I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation , than that of any felon who has gone from the Old Bailey these many years . Yes , I should like to have him work ...
... allowed in a court of justice . Rousseau , Sir , is a very bad man . I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation , than that of any felon who has gone from the Old Bailey these many years . Yes , I should like to have him work ...
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... allowed to go on . The following letters , though not written till the year after , being chiefly upon the same subject , are here inserted : - 66 TO MR . WILLIAM DRUMMOND . " DEAR SIR , " Johnson's - court , Fleet - street , April 21 ...
... allowed to go on . The following letters , though not written till the year after , being chiefly upon the same subject , are here inserted : - 66 TO MR . WILLIAM DRUMMOND . " DEAR SIR , " Johnson's - court , Fleet - street , April 21 ...
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... allowed to the dying declarations , because they were spontaneous . There is a great difference between what is said without our being urged to it , and what is said from a kind of compul- sion . If I praise a man's book without being ...
... allowed to the dying declarations , because they were spontaneous . There is a great difference between what is said without our being urged to it , and what is said from a kind of compul- sion . If I praise a man's book without being ...
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... allowed us to prepare for eternity : The night cometh when no man can work . " He sometime afterwards laid aside this dial - plate ; and when I asked him the reason , he said , " It might 66 1 Sir J. Hawkins says , that this watch was ...
... allowed us to prepare for eternity : The night cometh when no man can work . " He sometime afterwards laid aside this dial - plate ; and when I asked him the reason , he said , " It might 66 1 Sir J. Hawkins says , that this watch was ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Account of Corsica acquaintance admiration affectionate afraid afterwards answered appeared asked believe BENNET LANGTON bookseller called character church compliments consider conversation DEAR SIR dined Doctor of Medicine Edinburgh edition eminent England Erse favour Garrick gentleman GEORGE STEEVENS give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope humble servant JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson judge king lady Langton laugh learned letter Lichfield literary live London Lord Bute Lord Hailes Lord Monboddo Lucy Porter manner mentioned merit mind nation never obliged observed occasion opinion Oxford pamphlet perhaps pleased pleasure poem published reason remark respect Samuel Johnson Scotch Scotland seemed Shakspeare Sir Joshua Reynolds soon suppose sure talked tell thing thought Thrale told Tom Davies truth Williams wish wonder write written wrote
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Seite 102 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Seite 258 - Smart showed the disturbance of his mind by falling upon his knees and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place. Now although, rationally speaking, it is greater madness not to pray at all, than to pray as Smart did, I am afraid there are so many who do not pray, that their understanding is not called in question.
Seite 120 - Mr. Mickle, the translator of « The Lusiad,' and I went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards. He was not at home; but, having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals scrawled upon the wall with a blacklead pencil.
Seite 12 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime ; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain : Teach him, that states of native strength...
Seite 61 - I think that essay does her honour." JOHNSON. " Yes, Sir ; it does her honour, but it would do nobody else honour. I have, indeed, not read it all. But when I take up the end of a web, and find it packthread, I do not expect, by looking further to find embroidery. Sir, I will venture to say, there is not one sentence of true criticism in her book.
Seite 140 - He was then very merry, and talked occasionally of many things with his attendants. Among other things, he said, that if he were necessitated to take any particular profession of life, he could not be a lawyer, adding his reasons : 'I cannot (saith he,) defend a bad, nor yield in a good cause.
Seite 111 - Goldsmith's Life of Parnell is poor; not that it is poorly written, but that he had poor materials ; for nobody can write the life of a man, but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
Seite 82 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
Seite 258 - ... had a pair of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers. But all these slovenly particularities were forgotten the moment that he began to talk. Some gentlemen, whom I do not recollect, were sitting with him; and when they went away, I also rose; but he said to me, " Nay, don't go." " Sir," said I, " I am afraid that I intrude upon you. It is benevolent to allow me to sit and hear you.
Seite 113 - 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.