The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous: to which are Now Added Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, Recently Published by Mr. Boswell, and Other Authentic Testimonies; Also His Will, and the Sermon He Wrote for the Late Doctor DoddJ. Kay, 1828 - 292 páginas |
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... Prince of Abyssinia . THE ANCIENTS . Such is the general conspiracy of human nature against contemporary merit , that if we had inherited from antiquity enough to afford employment for the laborious , and amusement for the idle , what ...
... Prince of Abyssinia . THE ANCIENTS . Such is the general conspiracy of human nature against contemporary merit , that if we had inherited from antiquity enough to afford employment for the laborious , and amusement for the idle , what ...
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... Prince of Abyssinia . The usual fortune of complaint , is to excite contempt more than pity . Life of Cowley . To hear complaints with patience , even when complaints are vain , is one of the duties of friendship : and though it must be ...
... Prince of Abyssinia . The usual fortune of complaint , is to excite contempt more than pity . Life of Cowley . To hear complaints with patience , even when complaints are vain , is one of the duties of friendship : and though it must be ...
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... Prince of Abyssinia . Differences are never so effectually laid asleep , as by some common calamity . An enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger . Rambler . He that never was acquainted with adversity , ( says Seneca ) has seen the ...
... Prince of Abyssinia . Differences are never so effectually laid asleep , as by some common calamity . An enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger . Rambler . He that never was acquainted with adversity , ( says Seneca ) has seen the ...
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... Prince of Abyssinia . CLEANLINESS . There is a kind of anxious cleanliness , which is always a characteristic of a slattern ; it is the superfluous scrupulosity of guilt , dreading discovery and shunning suspicion . It is the violence ...
... Prince of Abyssinia . CLEANLINESS . There is a kind of anxious cleanliness , which is always a characteristic of a slattern ; it is the superfluous scrupulosity of guilt , dreading discovery and shunning suspicion . It is the violence ...
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... Prince of Abyssinia . The desires of man increase with his acquisitions ; every step which he advances brings something within his view , which he did not see before , and which as soon as he sees it , he begins to want . Where ...
... Prince of Abyssinia . The desires of man increase with his acquisitions ; every step which he advances brings something within his view , which he did not see before , and which as soon as he sees it , he begins to want . Where ...
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