The Works of Samuel Johnson, Band 12L. Hansard & sons, 1810 |
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... practice of chemistry , which he pro- secuted with all the ardour of a philosopher , whose industry was not to be wearied , and whose love of truth was too strong to suffer him to acquiesce in the reports of others . Yet did he not ...
... practice of chemistry , which he pro- secuted with all the ardour of a philosopher , whose industry was not to be wearied , and whose love of truth was too strong to suffer him to acquiesce in the reports of others . Yet did he not ...
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... practice of physick , he began to visit patients , but without that encouragement which others , not equally deserving , have sometimes met with . His business was , at first , not great , and his circumstances by no means easy ; but ...
... practice of physick , he began to visit patients , but without that encouragement which others , not equally deserving , have sometimes met with . His business was , at first , not great , and his circumstances by no means easy ; but ...
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... practice of physick . This was of equal advantage to the sick and to the students , for the success of his practice was the best demonstration of the soundness of his principles . 66 When he laid down his office of governor of the ...
... practice of physick . This was of equal advantage to the sick and to the students , for the success of his practice was the best demonstration of the soundness of his principles . 66 When he laid down his office of governor of the ...
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... practice was interrupted by the gout , which , as he relates it in his speech after his recovery , he brought upon himself , by an imprudent confidence in the strength of his own constitution , and by transgressing those rules which he ...
... practice was interrupted by the gout , which , as he relates it in his speech after his recovery , he brought upon himself , by an imprudent confidence in the strength of his own constitution , and by transgressing those rules which he ...
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... practice , but may be required , if trifled away , at the hand of the phy- sician . About the middle of the year 1737 , he felt the first approaches of that fatal illness that brought him to the grave , of which we have inserted an ...
... practice , but may be required , if trifled away , at the hand of the phy- sician . About the middle of the year 1737 , he felt the first approaches of that fatal illness that brought him to the grave , of which we have inserted an ...
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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.