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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... Natural History . 176 Assists Boswell in preparing for the defence of the schoolmaster of Campbelltown Religious exercises • Dictates to Boswell a long argument in a law case Letters to and from Boswell . Goldsmith apologises for ...
... Natural History . 176 Assists Boswell in preparing for the defence of the schoolmaster of Campbelltown Religious exercises • Dictates to Boswell a long argument in a law case Letters to and from Boswell . Goldsmith apologises for ...
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... natural indo- lence . In his " Meditations , " [ p . 53 ] he thus accuses himself : - : - " GOOD FRIDAY , April 20 , 1764. — I have made no reformation ; I have lived totally useless , more sensual in thought , and more addicted to wine ...
... natural indo- lence . In his " Meditations , " [ p . 53 ] he thus accuses himself : - : - " GOOD FRIDAY , April 20 , 1764. — I have made no reformation ; I have lived totally useless , more sensual in thought , and more addicted to wine ...
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... nature , even when on horseback , hap- pened when he was in the Isle of Sky . ' Sir Joshua Reynolds has observed him to go a good way about , rather than_cross a particular alley in Leicester Fields ; but this Sir Joshua imputed to his ...
... nature , even when on horseback , hap- pened when he was in the Isle of Sky . ' Sir Joshua Reynolds has observed him to go a good way about , rather than_cross a particular alley in Leicester Fields ; but this Sir Joshua imputed to his ...
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... natural that a situa- but with diminished lustre . In March , 1761 , he accompanied Lord Halifax , when that nobleman was made Lord Lieutenant , to Ireland , as his principal secretary . In the Irish House of Commons , in the course of ...
... natural that a situa- but with diminished lustre . In March , 1761 , he accompanied Lord Halifax , when that nobleman was made Lord Lieutenant , to Ireland , as his principal secretary . In the Irish House of Commons , in the course of ...
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... nature , and is expected soon to at- tain civil greatness . I am grown greater too , for I have main- tained the newspapers these many weeks ; and what is greater still , I have risen every morning since New - year's day at about eight ...
... nature , and is expected soon to at- tain civil greatness . I am grown greater too , for I have main- tained the newspapers these many weeks ; and what is greater still , I have risen every morning since New - year's day at about eight ...
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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...