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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... remarkable that Johnson should have seen four , if not five , of our sovereigns , and been in the actual presence of three if not four of them . Queen Anne touched him ; George the First he probably never but George the Second he must ...
... remarkable that Johnson should have seen four , if not five , of our sovereigns , and been in the actual presence of three if not four of them . Queen Anne touched him ; George the First he probably never but George the Second he must ...
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... remarkable . Taking care to keep in view the moral and religious duty , as understood This story has been entirely exploded . - Lockhart . 2 John Bell , of Antermony , who published at Glasgow , in 1763 , in two vols . 4to , Travels ...
... remarkable . Taking care to keep in view the moral and religious duty , as understood This story has been entirely exploded . - Lockhart . 2 John Bell , of Antermony , who published at Glasgow , in 1763 , in two vols . 4to , Travels ...
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... remarkable vigour of mind , and eager to exert himself in conversation , which he did with great readiness and fluency ; but I am sorry to find that I have preserved but a small part of what passed . He allowed high praise to Thomson as ...
... remarkable vigour of mind , and eager to exert himself in conversation , which he did with great readiness and fluency ; but I am sorry to find that I have preserved but a small part of what passed . He allowed high praise to Thomson as ...
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... remarkable for her humility and condescension to inferiors , he observed , that those were very laudable qualities , but it might not be so easy to discover who the lady's inferiors were . " Of a certain player1 he remarked , that his ...
... remarkable for her humility and condescension to inferiors , he observed , that those were very laudable qualities , but it might not be so easy to discover who the lady's inferiors were . " Of a certain player1 he remarked , that his ...
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... remarkable for fluency and vivacity , though certainly not for precision ) nor his parliamentary speeches ever bore any proportion to the extraordinary force and brilliancy of his forensic eloquence . Those who only knew him in private ...
... remarkable for fluency and vivacity , though certainly not for precision ) nor his parliamentary speeches ever bore any proportion to the extraordinary force and brilliancy of his forensic eloquence . Those who only knew him in private ...
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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...