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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... Head , in Gerrard Street , Soho , one evening in every week , at seven , and generally continued their conversation till a pretty late hour . This club has been gradually increased to its present [ 1791 ] number , thirty - five . After ...
... Head , in Gerrard Street , Soho , one evening in every week , at seven , and generally continued their conversation till a pretty late hour . This club has been gradually increased to its present [ 1791 ] number , thirty - five . After ...
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... head to one side towards his right shoulder , and shook it in a tremulous manner , moving his body backwards and forwards , and rubbing his left knee in the same direction , with the palm of his hand . In the intervals of articulating ...
... head to one side towards his right shoulder , and shook it in a tremulous manner , moving his body backwards and forwards , and rubbing his left knee in the same direction , with the palm of his hand . In the intervals of articulating ...
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... heads , or , couped at the neck : -Crest on a ducal coronet , a tree , vert . - Blakeway . 2 In 1733 he served the office of high sheriff for Surrey ; and died April 9 , 1758. - Chalmers . father , after he left college , was splendid ...
... heads , or , couped at the neck : -Crest on a ducal coronet , a tree , vert . - Blakeway . 2 In 1733 he served the office of high sheriff for Surrey ; and died April 9 , 1758. - Chalmers . father , after he left college , was splendid ...
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... head being encircled with a red - hot iron crown ; “ corona candescente ferreá coronatur . ” 1 The same severity of torture was exercised on the Earl of Athol , one of the murderers of King James I. of Scotland . Dr. Johnson at the same ...
... head being encircled with a red - hot iron crown ; “ corona candescente ferreá coronatur . ” 1 The same severity of torture was exercised on the Earl of Athol , one of the murderers of King James I. of Scotland . Dr. Johnson at the same ...
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... head of a victorious army , and an orator after having made an eloquent speech in a great assembly . JOHNSON . Sir , that all who are happy , are equally happy , is not true . A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied , but ...
... head of a victorious army , and an orator after having made an eloquent speech in a great assembly . JOHNSON . Sir , that all who are happy , are equally happy , is not true . A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied , but ...
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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...