The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volumen2G. Bell and sons, 1889 |
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... allow- ance to make for his occasional " laxity of talk , " that because in the course of discussion he sometimes mentioned what might be said in favour of the peculiar tenets of the Romish church , he went to his grave believing him to ...
... allow- ance to make for his occasional " laxity of talk , " that because in the course of discussion he sometimes mentioned what might be said in favour of the peculiar tenets of the Romish church , he went to his grave believing him to ...
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... allowed to be connected with elevation and precedency , would obtain the same dignity in our imagination ? Why should not the knowledge , the skill , the expertness , the assiduity , and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce , when ...
... allowed to be connected with elevation and precedency , would obtain the same dignity in our imagination ? Why should not the knowledge , the skill , the expertness , the assiduity , and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce , when ...
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... allowed at all , they should only be retreats for persons unable to serve the public , or who have served it . It is our first duty to serve society , and , after we have done that , we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own ...
... allowed at all , they should only be retreats for persons unable to serve the public , or who have served it . It is our first duty to serve society , and , after we have done that , we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own ...
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... allowed in a court of justice . Rousseau , Sir , is a very bad man . I would sooner sign a sentence for his transporta ... allow that he deserves the very severe censure which Johnson pronounced upon him . His absurd preference of savage ...
... allowed in a court of justice . Rousseau , Sir , is a very bad man . I would sooner sign a sentence for his transporta ... allow that he deserves the very severe censure which Johnson pronounced upon him . His absurd preference of savage ...
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... allow them more ; but , by this method , it appeared at once that the allowance was much more than sufficient for his small family ; and this proved a clear conviction , that could not be answered , and saved all future dispute . He was ...
... allow them more ; but , by this method , it appeared at once that the allowance was much more than sufficient for his small family ; and this proved a clear conviction , that could not be answered , and saved all future dispute . He was ...
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Página 314 - The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." I argued warmly against the Judges trading, and mentioned Hale as an instance of a perfect Judge, who devoted himself entirely to his office. JOHNSON. " Hale, Sir, attended to other things besides law : he left a great estate.
Página 24 - In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings or tyrant laws restrain, How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and...