The Works of Samuel Johnson, Band 12L. Hansard & sons, 1810 |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 18
Seite 4
... public profession in 1572 . At a general chapter of the Servites , held at Mantua , Paul ( for so we shall now call him ) being then only twenty years old , distinguished himself so much in a publick disputation by his genius and learn ...
... public profession in 1572 . At a general chapter of the Servites , held at Mantua , Paul ( for so we shall now call him ) being then only twenty years old , distinguished himself so much in a publick disputation by his genius and learn ...
Seite 44
... public 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 ...
... public 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 ...
Seite 61
... public spirit , which " has since been reckoned rather romantick than " heroick . And he was so disinterested , that though " no man had more opportunities to enrich him- " self than he , who had taken so many millions " from the ...
... public spirit , which " has since been reckoned rather romantick than " heroick . And he was so disinterested , that though " no man had more opportunities to enrich him- " self than he , who had taken so many millions " from the ...
Seite 62
... to adorn or enjoy a private fortune , though he had found him unfit to serve his country in a public character , and had therefore not suffered him to rob it . SIR FRANCIS DRAKE * . FRANCIS DRAKE was the son SIR 62 BLAKE .
... to adorn or enjoy a private fortune , though he had found him unfit to serve his country in a public character , and had therefore not suffered him to rob it . SIR FRANCIS DRAKE * . FRANCIS DRAKE was the son SIR 62 BLAKE .
Seite 168
... public school of Utrecht to be instructed in the learned languages ; and it will convey no common idea of his capacity and industry to relate , that he had passed through the * First printed in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1742. N ...
... public school of Utrecht to be instructed in the learned languages ; and it will convey no common idea of his capacity and industry to relate , that he had passed through the * First printed in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1742. N ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
afterwards appears Ascham Ashbourne Austrians Blake boat Boerhaave Bohemia Browne Cave Cheynel coast considered continued court curiosity danger DEAR MADAM DEAREST MADAM death declared degree desire diligence discovered dominions Drake Dutch easily EDWARD CAVE elector of Saxony endeavoured enemies engaged English enquiries equally father fleet fortune French friends frigate Gentleman's Magazine happiness harbour honour hope imagine island kind king of Prussia knowledge labour lady land language learning less lived Lord master mercy mind nature never night Nombre de Dios observed opinion passed perhaps physick pinnaces pleasure prince Prince Charles procured publick queen of Hungary Raarsa reason received Religio Medici reputation retired rock sail seems sent shew ship Silesia Sir Thomas Browne Skie soon Spaniards Streatham studies suffer Symerons things thought THRALE tion town travelled troops vessels write
Beliebte Passagen
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.