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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... hear of your sickness till I heard likewise of your recovery , and therefore escape that part of your pain , which every man must feel , to whom you are known as you are known to me . " Having had no particular account of your disorder ...
... hear of your sickness till I heard likewise of your recovery , and therefore escape that part of your pain , which every man must feel , to whom you are known as you are known to me . " Having had no particular account of your disorder ...
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... hear of brewers , distillers , and men in similar departments of trade , held forth as persons of considerable consequence . In this great commercial country it is natural that a situa- but with diminished lustre . In March , 1761 , he ...
... hear of brewers , distillers , and men in similar departments of trade , held forth as persons of considerable consequence . In this great commercial country it is natural that a situa- but with diminished lustre . In March , 1761 , he ...
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... hear the sermon , to attend it , unless attention be more troublesome than useful . 66 To 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 ...
... hear the sermon , to attend it , unless attention be more troublesome than useful . 66 To 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 ...
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... hear you ; and hope that we shall not be so long separated again . Come home , and expect such welcome as is due to him , whom a wise and noble curiosity has led , where perhaps no native of this country ever was before . " I have no ...
... hear you ; and hope that we shall not be so long separated again . Come home , and expect such welcome as is due to him , whom a wise and noble curiosity has led , where perhaps no native of this country ever was before . " I have no ...
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... hear it : we'll put a bad one to it . " JOHNSON . ' No , Sir ; I have forgot it . " 66 Such specimens of the easy and playful conversation of the great Dr. Samuel Johnson are , I think , to be prized ; as exhibiting the little varieties ...
... hear it : we'll put a bad one to it . " JOHNSON . ' No , Sir ; I have forgot it . " 66 Such specimens of the easy and playful conversation of the great Dr. Samuel Johnson are , I think , to be prized ; as exhibiting the little varieties ...
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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...