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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... consider how vainly I have hitherto resolved , at this annual commemoration of my Saviour's death , to regulate my life by his laws , I am almost afraid to renew my resolutions . " The concluding words are very remarkable , and show ...
... consider how vainly I have hitherto resolved , at this annual commemoration of my Saviour's death , to regulate my life by his laws , I am almost afraid to renew my resolutions . " The concluding words are very remarkable , and show ...
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... considering the young man's good intention , he kindly noticed him , and probably would have done more , had not the young man died . In his Preface to " Shakspeare , " Johnson treated Voltaire very contemptuously , observing , upon ...
... considering the young man's good intention , he kindly noticed him , and probably would have done more , had not the young man died . In his Preface to " Shakspeare , " Johnson treated Voltaire very contemptuously , observing , upon ...
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... consider the act of prayer as a reposal of myself upon God , and a resignation of all into his holy hand . " Both in 1764 and 1765 it should seem that he was so busily employed with his edition of Shakspeare , as to have had little ...
... consider the act of prayer as a reposal of myself upon God , and a resignation of all into his holy hand . " Both in 1764 and 1765 it should seem that he was so busily employed with his edition of Shakspeare , as to have had little ...
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... consider the present Earl of Bute to be ' Excelsæ familiæ de Bute spes prima ; ' and my Lord Mountstuart , as his eldest son , to be spes altera . So in Eneid xii . 1. 168 , after having mentioned Pater Æneas , who was the present spes ...
... consider the present Earl of Bute to be ' Excelsæ familiæ de Bute spes prima ; ' and my Lord Mountstuart , as his eldest son , to be spes altera . So in Eneid xii . 1. 168 , after having mentioned Pater Æneas , who was the present spes ...
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... consider whether the publication will really do any good ; next , whether by printing and distributing a very small number , you may not attain all that you propose ; and , what perhaps I should have said first , whether the letter ...
... consider whether the publication will really do any good ; next , whether by printing and distributing a very small number , you may not attain all that you propose ; and , what perhaps I should have said first , whether the letter ...
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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...