The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.P. F. Collier and Son, 1900 |
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... speaking . " Action can have no effect upon reasonable minds . It may augment noise , but it never can enforce argument . If you speak to a dog , you use action ; you hold up your hand thus , because he is a brute ; and in proportion as ...
... speaking . " Action can have no effect upon reasonable minds . It may augment noise , but it never can enforce argument . If you speak to a dog , you use action ; you hold up your hand thus , because he is a brute ; and in proportion as ...
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... speak his mind freely . " JOHNSON : " Sir , a foreigner , when he sends a work from the press , ought to be on his guard against catching the error and mistaken enthusiasm of the ON CONTEMPORARY HISTORY people among whom he happens to ...
... speak his mind freely . " JOHNSON : " Sir , a foreigner , when he sends a work from the press , ought to be on his guard against catching the error and mistaken enthusiasm of the ON CONTEMPORARY HISTORY people among whom he happens to ...
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... speak . In order to try him , I took down a book , and read while he wrote ; and I favoured him , for I read more deliberately than usual . I had proceeded but a very little way , when he begged I would desist , for he could not follow ...
... speak . In order to try him , I took down a book , and read while he wrote ; and I favoured him , for I read more deliberately than usual . I had proceeded but a very little way , when he begged I would desist , for he could not follow ...
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... speak , he might as well exclaim , -Here am I with this cow and this grass ; what being can enjoy greater felicity ? " We talked of the melancholy end of a gentleman who had destroyed himself . JOHNSON : " It was owing to imaginary ...
... speak , he might as well exclaim , -Here am I with this cow and this grass ; what being can enjoy greater felicity ? " We talked of the melancholy end of a gentleman who had destroyed himself . JOHNSON : " It was owing to imaginary ...
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... speak , he found himself over- powered by the loud voice of Johnson , who was at the opposite end of the table , and did not perceive Goldsmith's attempt . Thus disappointed of his wish to obtain the attention of the company , Goldsmith ...
... speak , he found himself over- powered by the loud voice of Johnson , who was at the opposite end of the table , and did not perceive Goldsmith's attempt . Thus disappointed of his wish to obtain the attention of the company , Goldsmith ...
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Página 364 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 196 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Página 96 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Página 368 - Why, sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Página 112 - I once wrote for a magazine : I made a calculation, that if I should write but a page a day, at the same rate, I should, in ten years, write nine volumes in folio, of an ordinary size and print.
Página 128 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Página 28 - Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale.
Página 426 - ' Yes, Sir, one of the best." BOSWELL. " Tillotson ?" JOHNSON. " Why, not now. I should not advise a preacher at this day to imitate Tillotson's style; though I don't know ; I should be cautious of objecting to what has been applauded by so many suffrages. — South is one of the best, if you except his peculiarities, and his violence, and sometimes coarseness of language.
Página 61 - He died of a fever, made, I am afraid, more violent by uneasiness of mind. His debts began to be heavy, and all his resources were exhausted. Sir Joshua is of opinion that he owed not less than two thousand pounds. Was ever poet so trusted before...
Página 443 - by doing so, you would do what would be of importance in raising your children to eminence. There would be a lustre reflected upon them from your spirit and curiosity. They would be at all times regarded as the children of a man who had gone to view the wall of China. I am serious, sir.