The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and additions to the first edition, Band 11807 |
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... Lordship's own department . This masterly argument , after being prefaced and concluded with some sentences of my own ... Lord Hailes , however , one of that honourable body , had critical sagacity enough to discover a more than ordinary ...
... Lordship's own department . This masterly argument , after being prefaced and concluded with some sentences of my own ... Lord Hailes , however , one of that honourable body , had critical sagacity enough to discover a more than ordinary ...
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... Sir , " Your most humble servant , Etat . 65 . May 10 , 1774 . 66 " SAM . JOHNSON . " MR . BOSWELL TO DR . JOHNSON . " Edinburgh , May 12 , 1774 . " LORD HAILES has begged of me to offer you his best respects , and to transmit to you ...
... Sir , " Your most humble servant , Etat . 65 . May 10 , 1774 . 66 " SAM . JOHNSON . " MR . BOSWELL TO DR . JOHNSON . " Edinburgh , May 12 , 1774 . " LORD HAILES has begged of me to offer you his best respects , and to transmit to you ...
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... Lord Hailes otherwise than with high respect . I return the sheets , 3 to which I have done what mischief I could ; and finding it so little , thought not much of sending them . The narrative is clear , lively , and short . " I have ...
... Lord Hailes otherwise than with high respect . I return the sheets , 3 to which I have done what mischief I could ; and finding it so little , thought not much of sending them . The narrative is clear , lively , and short . " I have ...
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... Lord Hailes's Annals of Scotland , ' are excellent . I agreed with you on every one of them . He himself objected ... Lord Hailes writes to me thus : Mr. Boswell will be pleased to 1774. express the grateful sense which Sir David ...
... Lord Hailes's Annals of Scotland , ' are excellent . I agreed with you on every one of them . He himself objected ... Lord Hailes writes to me thus : Mr. Boswell will be pleased to 1774. express the grateful sense which Sir David ...
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... Lord Hailes had it in view . I remember one morning , while he sat with you in my house , he said , that there should be a new edition of Walton's Lives ; and you said that they should be benoted a little . " This was all that passed on ...
... Lord Hailes had it in view . I remember one morning , while he sat with you in my house , he said , that there should be a new edition of Walton's Lives ; and you said that they should be benoted a little . " This was all that passed on ...
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Seite 470 - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Seite 356 - The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Seite 246 - Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And see the ocean leaning on the sky ; From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry.
Seite 228 - It having been observed that there was little hospitality in London : — JOHNSON. ' Nay, sir, any man who has a name, or who has the power of pleasing, will be very generally invited in London. The man Sterne, I have been told, has had engagements for three months." — GOLDSMITH. "And a very dull fellow.
Seite 49 - ... supposing your arguments to be weak and inconclusive. But, Sir, that is not enough. An argument which does not convince yourself may convince the judge to whom you urge it ; and if it does convince him, why, then. Sir, you are wrong, and he is right. It is his business to judge ; and you are not to be confident in your own opinion that a cause is bad, but to say all you can for your client, and then hear the judge's opinion.
Seite 74 - Talking of a London life, he said: " The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it. I will venture to say, there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit, than in all the rest of the kingdom.
Seite 191 - I believe they might be good beings, but they were not fit to be in the University of Oxford. A cow is a very good animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden.
Seite 6 - 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 257 - Sir, that is because at first she has full time and makes her nest deliberately. In the case you mention she is pressed to lay, and must therefore make her nest quickly, and consequently it will be slight." GOLDSMITH. " The nidification of birds is what is least known in natural history, though one of the most curious things in it.
Seite 469 - The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests ; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him : and no man, but a very impudent dog indeed, can as freely command what is in another man's house, as if it were his own. Whereas, at a tavern, there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome : and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcoroer you are.