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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... mind 59 Boswell publishes his Corsica . 1768 . Et . 59 . Johnson renews his promise of going to Scotland But is much prejudiced against that country Praises Baretti and his book Gives Boswell permission to publish his letters after his ...
... mind 59 Boswell publishes his Corsica . 1768 . Et . 59 . Johnson renews his promise of going to Scotland But is much prejudiced against that country Praises Baretti and his book Gives Boswell permission to publish his letters after his ...
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... mind in 1771 1772 . Æt . 63 . Note on Lord Monboddo 1771 . Æt . 62 . Johnson writes another political pamphlet Mr. Strahan endeavours to get Johnson into the House of Commons Burke's opinion of what Johnson's power would have been as a ...
... mind in 1771 1772 . Æt . 63 . Note on Lord Monboddo 1771 . Æt . 62 . Johnson writes another political pamphlet Mr. Strahan endeavours to get Johnson into the House of Commons Burke's opinion of what Johnson's power would have been as a ...
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... mind the following ingenious passage in The Conscious Lovers , act iv . , scene 2 , where Mr. Sealand thus addresses Sir John Bevil : - " Give me leave to say , that we merchants are a species of gentry that have grown into the world ...
... mind the following ingenious passage in The Conscious Lovers , act iv . , scene 2 , where Mr. Sealand thus addresses Sir John Bevil : - " Give me leave to say , that we merchants are a species of gentry that have grown into the world ...
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... mind of his past injunctions to the young poet , to which he replied , " that he wished the shoemaker might have remembered them as well . " Mr. Johnson liked his new acquaintance so much , however , that from that time he dined with us ...
... mind of his past injunctions to the young poet , to which he replied , " that he wished the shoemaker might have remembered them as well . " Mr. Johnson liked his new acquaintance so much , however , that from that time he dined with us ...
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... mind by meditation , or by reading some portions of scripture . Tetty . 66 • If I can 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 ...
... mind by meditation , or by reading some portions of scripture . Tetty . 66 • If I can 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 ...
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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...