The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan and Company, 1922 - Authors, English |
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... language of our sacred book to ordinary subjects may tend to lessen our reverence for it . If therefore it be introduced at all , it should be with very great caution . On Thursday , April 8 , I sat a good part of the evening with him ...
... language of our sacred book to ordinary subjects may tend to lessen our reverence for it . If therefore it be introduced at all , it should be with very great caution . On Thursday , April 8 , I sat a good part of the evening with him ...
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... Language and Uni- versal Grammar , written , says Coleridge , " with the precision of Aristotle and the elegance of Quintilian . " In 1761 he entered Parliament as Member for Christchurch , which seat he retained until his death . He ...
... Language and Uni- versal Grammar , written , says Coleridge , " with the precision of Aristotle and the elegance of Quintilian . " In 1761 he entered Parliament as Member for Christchurch , which seat he retained until his death . He ...
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... language , the application of the epithets suggested by me is the most obvious ; and accordingly my friend him- self , in his imitation of the passage which describes Xerxes , has " The waves he lashes , and enchains the wind . " The ...
... language , the application of the epithets suggested by me is the most obvious ; and accordingly my friend him- self , in his imitation of the passage which describes Xerxes , has " The waves he lashes , and enchains the wind . " The ...
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... language is nearer to English ; as a proof of which , they succeed very well as players , which Scotchmen do not . Then , Sir , they have not that extreme nationality which we find in the Scotch . I will do you , Boswell , the justice ...
... language is nearer to English ; as a proof of which , they succeed very well as players , which Scotchmen do not . Then , Sir , they have not that extreme nationality which we find in the Scotch . I will do you , Boswell , the justice ...
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... language . " ( Prayers and Meditations , p . 129. ) It is to be observed that he here admits an opinion of the human mind being influenced by seasons , which he ridicules in his writings . His progress , he says , was interrupted by a ...
... language . " ( Prayers and Meditations , p . 129. ) It is to be observed that he here admits an opinion of the human mind being influenced by seasons , which he ridicules in his writings . His progress , he says , was interrupted by a ...
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Page 366 - 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.
Page 96 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Page 370 - 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.
Page 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.
Page 352 - Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is Strange, yet nothing new: Endless labour all along, Endless labour to be wrong; Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
Page 128 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Page 27 - Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go And view the ocean leaning on the sky : From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know And on the lunar world securely pry.
Page 204 - I sell here, Sir, what all the " world desires to have, — POWER' He had about seven
Page 24 - 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.
Page 300 - ALMIGHTY God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.