The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Reviews, political tracts, and Lives of eminent personsW. Pickering, 1825 |
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... force of thought . If he had happened to think on Baillet's chapter of Enfans célèbres , he might have made , on this occasion , a very entertaining dissertation on early excellence . He comes next to the Essay on Criticism , the stu ...
... force of thought . If he had happened to think on Baillet's chapter of Enfans célèbres , he might have made , on this occasion , a very entertaining dissertation on early excellence . He comes next to the Essay on Criticism , the stu ...
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... force themselves into the crea- tion , so long as the good preponderates , it is a work well worthy of infinite wisdom and benevolence ; and , notwith- standing the imperfections of its parts , the whole is , most undoubtedly , perfect ...
... force themselves into the crea- tion , so long as the good preponderates , it is a work well worthy of infinite wisdom and benevolence ; and , notwith- standing the imperfections of its parts , the whole is , most undoubtedly , perfect ...
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... force only of accidental circum- stances . But this impeaches not the truth of the criterion of virtue , before mentioned , the only solid foundation on which any true system of ethics can be built , the only plain , simple , and ...
... force only of accidental circum- stances . But this impeaches not the truth of the criterion of virtue , before mentioned , the only solid foundation on which any true system of ethics can be built , the only plain , simple , and ...
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... force of the book , be- cause we can only select parts of that evidence , which owes its strength to its concatenation , and which will be weakened , whenever it is disjoined . The account of the seizure of these controverted letters is ...
... force of the book , be- cause we can only select parts of that evidence , which owes its strength to its concatenation , and which will be weakened , whenever it is disjoined . The account of the seizure of these controverted letters is ...
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... force ; for it has been rarely , very rarely , known , that foreigners , however well treated , caressed , enriched , flattered , or exalted , have regarded this country with the least gratitude or affection , till the race has , by ...
... force ; for it has been rarely , very rarely , known , that foreigners , however well treated , caressed , enriched , flattered , or exalted , have regarded this country with the least gratitude or affection , till the race has , by ...
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Seite 239 - 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.
Seite 240 - 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.
Seite 241 - But, from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, 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 ; excluding every idea of taxation internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America,...
Seite 262 - ... peaceably diligent, and securely rich. But there is one writer, and perhaps many who do not write, to whom the contraction of these pernicious privileges appears very dangerous, and who startle at the thoughts of England free and America in chains. Children fly from their own shadow, and rhetoricians are frighted by their own voices. Chains is undoubtedly a dreadful word; but perhaps the masters of civil wisdom may discover some gradations between chains and anarchy. Chains need not be put upon...
Seite 206 - Junius is an unusual phenomenon, on which some have gazed with wonder, and some with terrour, but wonder and terrour are transitory passions. -Be will soon be more closely viewed^'; or more attentively examined ; and what folly has taken for a comet, that from its flaming hair shook pestilence and war...
Seite 56 - To entail irreversible poverty upon generation after generation, only because the ancestor happened to be poor, is, in itself, cruel, if not unjust, and is wholly contrary to the maxims of a commercial nation, which always suppose and promote a rotation of property, and offer every individual a chance of mending his condition by his diligence.
Seite 249 - ... guaranteed by the plighted faith of government, and the most solemn compacts with British Sovereigns, should refuse to surrender them to men, who found their claims on no principles of reason, and who prosecute them with a design, that by having our lives and property in their power they may, with the greater facility, enslave you.
Seite 485 - God hath necessitated their contentment : but the superior ingredient and obscured part of ourselves, whereto all present felicities afford no resting contentment, will be able at last to tell us, we are more than our present selves, and evacuate such hopes in the fruition of their own accomplishments.
Seite 481 - a lady," says Whitefoot, " of such symmetrical proportion to her worthy husband, both in the graces of her body and mind, that they seemed to come together by a kind of natural magnetism.
Seite 479 - There are many things delivered rhetorically, many expressions therein merely tropical, and as they best illustrate my intention ; and therefore also there are many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense, and not to be called unto the rigid test of reason.