The Works of Samuel Johnson, Band 12L. Hansard & sons, 1810 |
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... taken notice of . After this he passed successively through the digni- ties of his order , and in the intervals of his employ- ment applied himself to his studies with so extensive a capacity , as left no branch of knowledge untouched ...
... taken notice of . After this he passed successively through the digni- ties of his order , and in the intervals of his employ- ment applied himself to his studies with so extensive a capacity , as left no branch of knowledge untouched ...
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... tongue , and at the utmost distance from all contentions , and state - parties . His time was wholly taken up in visiting the sick , studying , making che- mical experiments , searching into every part of me- dicine mical 22 BOERHAAVE .
... tongue , and at the utmost distance from all contentions , and state - parties . His time was wholly taken up in visiting the sick , studying , making che- mical experiments , searching into every part of me- dicine mical 22 BOERHAAVE .
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... useless life for , besides his hours spent in instructing his scholars , a great part of his time was taken up by pa- tients which came , when the distemper would admit it , from all parts of Europe to consult him it , 30 BOERHAAVE .
... useless life for , besides his hours spent in instructing his scholars , a great part of his time was taken up by pa- tients which came , when the distemper would admit it , from all parts of Europe to consult him it , 30 BOERHAAVE .
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... neighbours . This unusual armament was not be- held by the English without some jealousy , and care was taken to fit out such a fleet as might secure the trade trade from interruption , and the coasts from in- sults 46 BLAKE .
... neighbours . This unusual armament was not be- held by the English without some jealousy , and care was taken to fit out such a fleet as might secure the trade trade from interruption , and the coasts from in- sults 46 BLAKE .
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... taken they are too wise to deny , but affirm that those two were all that were destroyed . The English , on the other side , affirm that three of their vessels were disabled at the first encounter , that their numbers on the se- cond ...
... taken they are too wise to deny , but affirm that those two were all that were destroyed . The English , on the other side , affirm that three of their vessels were disabled at the first encounter , that their numbers on the se- cond ...
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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.