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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... less than a thousand a year . This , in a man who had risen as old Thrale did , was a very extraordinary instance of generosity . He used to say , " If this young dog does not find so much after I am gone as he expects , let him ...
... less than a thousand a year . This , in a man who had risen as old Thrale did , was a very extraordinary instance of generosity . He used to say , " If this young dog does not find so much after I am gone as he expects , let him ...
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... less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race , With necks in thunder clothed , and long resounding pace . " Ode on the Progress of Poesy . Johnson , in the Life of Pope , has made a comparison ...
... less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race , With necks in thunder clothed , and long resounding pace . " Ode on the Progress of Poesy . Johnson , in the Life of Pope , has made a comparison ...
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... less practice . Now , Sir , the good I can do by my conversation bears the same proportion to the good I can do by my writings , that the practice of a physician , retired to a small town , does to his practice in a great city ...
... less practice . Now , Sir , the good I can do by my conversation bears the same proportion to the good I can do by my writings , that the practice of a physician , retired to a small town , does to his practice in a great city ...
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... less than the tenth part of his income was set apart for charity at the time of his death , the sum of twenty - five pounds was found , with a direction to be employed in such uses . " He had laid down a plan of living proportioned to ...
... less than the tenth part of his income was set apart for charity at the time of his death , the sum of twenty - five pounds was found , with a direction to be employed in such uses . " He had laid down a plan of living proportioned to ...
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... less the object will appear . " - " Why , " replied the King , " this is not only telling an untruth , but telling it clumsily ; for , if that be the case , every one who can look through a microscope will be able to detect him . " " 1 ...
... less the object will appear . " - " Why , " replied the King , " this is not only telling an untruth , but telling it clumsily ; for , if that be the case , every one who can look through a microscope will be able to detect him . " " 1 ...
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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...