The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Band 7H.G. Bohn, 1848 |
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... happy , and good . I have been much out of order , but , I hope , do not grow worse . " The crime of the schoolmaster whom you are en- gaged to prosecute is very great , and may be suspected to be too common . In our law it would be a ...
... happy , and good . I have been much out of order , but , I hope , do not grow worse . " The crime of the schoolmaster whom you are en- gaged to prosecute is very great , and may be suspected to be too common . In our law it would be a ...
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... happy years . " You have ended the negro's cause much to my mind . Lord Auchinleck and dear Lord Hailes were on the side of liberty . Lord Hailes's name reproaches me ; but if he saw my languid neglect of my own affairs , he would ...
... happy years . " You have ended the negro's cause much to my mind . Lord Auchinleck and dear Lord Hailes were on the side of liberty . Lord Hailes's name reproaches me ; but if he saw my languid neglect of my own affairs , he would ...
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... happy if at a distance from them . She therefore wishes rather to go to some country place in Scotland , where she can have them with her . " I purpose being in London about the 20th of next month , as I think it creditable to appear in ...
... happy if at a distance from them . She therefore wishes rather to go to some country place in Scotland , where she can have them with her . " I purpose being in London about the 20th of next month , as I think it creditable to appear in ...
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... happy , when every favour he bestowed on one was wormwood to the rest . If , however , I ventured to blame their ingratitude , and condemn their conduct , he would instantly set about softening the one and justifying the other ; and ...
... happy , when every favour he bestowed on one was wormwood to the rest . If , however , I ventured to blame their ingratitude , and condemn their conduct , he would instantly set about softening the one and justifying the other ; and ...
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... happy . " P. " As to thinking better or worse of mankind from experience , some cunning people will not be satisfied unless they have put men to the test , as they think . There is a very good story told of Sir Godfrey Kneller , in his ...
... happy . " P. " As to thinking better or worse of mankind from experience , some cunning people will not be satisfied unless they have put men to the test , as they think . There is a very good story told of Sir Godfrey Kneller , in his ...
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Seite 253 - Poor stuff! No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Seite 24 - To abolish a status, which in all ages GOD has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in 'their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West Indies, and their treatment there, is humanely regulated. To abolish this trade would be to ' " shut the...
Seite 125 - I could write a better book of cookery than has ever yet been written; it should be a book upon philosophical principles. Pharmacy is now made much more simple. Cookery may be made so too. A prescription which is now compounded of five ingredients, had formerly fifty in it. So in cookery, if the nature of the ingredients be well known, much fewer will do.
Seite 361 - Having spent an evening at Mr. Langton's with the Reverend Dr. Parr, he was much pleased with the conversation of that learned gentleman ; and after he was gone, said to Mr. Langton, ' 'Sir, I am obliged to you for having asked me this evening. Parr is a fair man. I do not know when I have had an occasion of such free controversy. It is remarkable how much of a man's life may pass without meeting with any instance of this kind of open discussion.
Seite 124 - Before dinner Dr. Johnson seized upon Mr. Charles Sheridan's "Account of the Late Revolution in Sweden," and seemed to read it ravenously, as if he devoured it, which was to all appearance his method of studying. "He knows how to read better than any one (said Mrs, Knowles) ; he gets at the substance of a book directly ; he tears out the heart of it.
Seite 17 - Andes' clifted side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide ; Or, starting from your half-year's sleep, From Hecla view the thawing deep ; Or, at the purple dawn of day, Tadmor's marble waste survey. observing,
Seite 102 - They are happy as brutes are happy, with a piece of fresh meat — with the grossest sensuality. But, Sir, the profession of soldiers and sailors has the dignity of danger. Mankind reverence those who have got over fear, which is so general a weakness.
Seite 99 - Sir: celebrated men, such as you have mentioned, have had their applause at a distance; but Garrick had it dashed in his face, sounded in his ears, and went home every night with the plaudits of a thousand in his cranium. Then, Sir, Garrick did not find, but made his way to the tables, the levees, and almost the bed-chambers of the great. Then, Sir, Garrick had under him a numerous body of people ; who, from fear of his power, and hopes of his favour, and admiration of his talents, were constantly...
Seite 376 - Depend upon it, said he, that if a man talks of his misfortunes, there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him ; for where there is nothing but pure misery, there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
Seite 46 - To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew...