Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen2Hart, Carey & Hart, 1854 |
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... intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book . Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biogra- phy . Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived ; and he has beaten them all . He was , if we are to give any ...
... intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book . Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biogra- phy . Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived ; and he has beaten them all . He was , if we are to give any ...
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... intellect was the union of great powers with low prejudices . If we judged of him by the best parts of his mind , we should place him almost as high as he was placed by the idolatry of Boswell ; if by the worst parts of his mind , we ...
... intellect was the union of great powers with low prejudices . If we judged of him by the best parts of his mind , we should place him almost as high as he was placed by the idolatry of Boswell ; if by the worst parts of his mind , we ...
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... intellect a mere Pococurante - far too apathetic about public affairs - far too skeptical as to the good or evil tendency of any form of polity . His passions , on the contrary , were violent even to slaying against all who leaned to ...
... intellect a mere Pococurante - far too apathetic about public affairs - far too skeptical as to the good or evil tendency of any form of polity . His passions , on the contrary , were violent even to slaying against all who leaned to ...
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... intellect which had excited their admiration under the same roof and on the same day . Johnson decided literary questions like a lawyer , not like a legislator . He never examined foundations where a point was already ruled . His whole ...
... intellect which had excited their admiration under the same roof and on the same day . Johnson decided literary questions like a lawyer , not like a legislator . He never examined foundations where a point was already ruled . His whole ...
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... intellect were rarely found in a Londoner who had not read much ; and because it was by means of books that people acquired almost all their knowledge in the society with which he was acquainted , he concluded , in defiance of the ...
... intellect were rarely found in a Londoner who had not read much ; and because it was by means of books that people acquired almost all their knowledge in the society with which he was acquainted , he concluded , in defiance of the ...
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Página 45 - Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years * ; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
Página 169 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Página 411 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Página 165 - Forgiveness to the injured does belong; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.
Página 53 - This incident is recorded in the Journey as follows : " Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.
Página 215 - He was, unless we have formed a very erroneous judgment of his character, the most eccentric, the most artificial, the most fastidious, the most capricious of men. His mind was a bundle of inconsistent whims and affectations. His features were covered by mask within mask. When the outer disguise of obvious affectation was removed, you were still as far as ever from seeing the real man.
Página 349 - England's high Chancellor, the destined heir, In his soft cradle , to his father's chair, Whose even thread the Fates spin round and full Out of their choicest and their whitest wool.
Página 32 - But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer. Without all the qualities which made him the jest and the torment of those among whom he lived, without the officiousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toad-eating, the insensibility to all reproof, he never could have produced so excellent a book.
Página 297 - ... which we hold with the highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero. No...
Página 46 - I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. Sir, the danger of the abuse of power is nothing to a private man. What Frenchman is prevented passing his life as he pleases?' SIR ADAM: 'But, sir, in the British constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the Crown.