The Works of Samuel Johnson, Band 12L. Hansard & sons, 1810 |
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... enemy , and honoured by all the learned for his abi- lities , and by the good for his integrity . His detest → ation of the corruption of the Roman church appears in all his writings , but particularly in this memorable passage of one ...
... enemy , and honoured by all the learned for his abi- lities , and by the good for his integrity . His detest → ation of the corruption of the Roman church appears in all his writings , but particularly in this memorable passage of one ...
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... detraction , nor ever thought it necessary to confute them ; " for they " are sparks , " said he , " which , if you do not blow 66 them , will go out of themselves . " Yet 1 Yet he took care never to provoke enemies by 34 BOERHAAVE .
... detraction , nor ever thought it necessary to confute them ; " for they " are sparks , " said he , " which , if you do not blow 66 them , will go out of themselves . " Yet 1 Yet he took care never to provoke enemies by 34 BOERHAAVE .
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Samuel Johnson. 1 Yet he took care never to provoke enemies by severity of censure , for he never dwelt on the faults or defects of others , and was so far from inflaming the envy of his rivals by dwelling on his own excellences , that ...
Samuel Johnson. 1 Yet he took care never to provoke enemies by severity of censure , for he never dwelt on the faults or defects of others , and was so far from inflaming the envy of his rivals by dwelling on his own excellences , that ...
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... enemy , whose insults , ravages , and barbarities , have long called for vengeance , an account of such English commanders as have merited the acknow- ledgments of posterity , by extending the powers and raising the honour of their ...
... enemy , whose insults , ravages , and barbarities , have long called for vengeance , an account of such English commanders as have merited the acknow- ledgments of posterity , by extending the powers and raising the honour of their ...
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... enemies of the commonwealth of England , he demanded leave to fall upon it . This being refused , though the refusal was in very soft terms , and accompanied with decla- rations of esteem , and a present of provisions , so exasperated ...
... enemies of the commonwealth of England , he demanded leave to fall upon it . This being refused , though the refusal was in very soft terms , and accompanied with decla- rations of esteem , and a present of provisions , so exasperated ...
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Seite 423 - At night they set fire to the Fleet, and to the King's Bench, and I know not how many other places ; and one might see the glare of conflagration fill the sky from many parts. The sight was dreadful. Some people were threatened : Mr. Strahan advised me to take care of myself. — Such a time of terrour you have been happy in not seeing.
Seite 276 - The reciprocal civility. of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.
Seite 332 - I cannot forbear to mention, that neither reason nor revelation denies you to hope, that you may increase her happiness by obeying her precepts ; and that she may, in her present state, look with pleasure upon every act of virtue to which her instructions or example have contributed.
Seite 368 - The return of my birth-day, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Seite 181 - That the strength of his understanding, the accuracy of his discernment, and the ardour of his Curiosity, might have been remarked from his infancy, by a diligent observer, there is no reason to doubt. For, there is no instance of any man, whose history has been minutely related, that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour.
Seite 39 - So far was this man from being made impious by philosophy, or vain by knowledge or by virtue, that he ascribed all his abilities to the bounty, and all his goodness to the grace of God. May his example extend its influence to his admirers and followers' May those who study his writings imitate his life ! and those who endeavour after his knowledge aspire likewise to his piety...
Seite 438 - When Queen Mary took the resolution of sheltering herself in England, the Archbishop of St. Andrew's, attempting to dissuade her, attended on her journey; and when they came to the irremeable...
Seite 445 - ALMIGHTY God, merciful Father, in whose hands are life and death, sanctify unto me the sorrow which I now feel. Forgive me whatever I have done unkindly to my mother, and whatever I have omitted to do kindly. Make me to remember her good precepts and good example, and to reform my life according to thy holy word, that I may lose no more opportunities of good.
Seite 283 - It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progrcssional, and otherwise made in vain...
Seite 276 - 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.