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He was then very merry , and talked occasion- ally of many things with his attendants . Among other things , he said , that if he were necessitated to take any particular profession of life he could not be a lawyer , adding his reasons ...
He was then very merry , and talked occasion- ally of many things with his attendants . Among other things , he said , that if he were necessitated to take any particular profession of life he could not be a lawyer , adding his reasons ...
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... who upon no other occasions are unanimous or wise . If by some strange con- currence all the voices of a parish should unite in the choice of any single man , though I could not charge the patron with injustice for presenting a ...
... who upon no other occasions are unanimous or wise . If by some strange con- currence all the voices of a parish should unite in the choice of any single man , though I could not charge the patron with injustice for presenting a ...
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In our way to the club to - night , when I regretted that Goldsmith would , upon every occasion , endeavour to shine , by which he often exposed himself , Mr. Langton observed , that he was not like Addison , who was content with the ...
In our way to the club to - night , when I regretted that Goldsmith would , upon every occasion , endeavour to shine , by which he often exposed himself , Mr. Langton observed , that he was not like Addison , who was content with the ...
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Goldsmith's incessant desire of being conspicuous in company , was the occasion of his sometimes appearing to such disadvantage as one should hardly have supposed possible in a man of his genius . When his literary reputa- tion had ...
Goldsmith's incessant desire of being conspicuous in company , was the occasion of his sometimes appearing to such disadvantage as one should hardly have supposed possible in a man of his genius . When his literary reputa- tion had ...
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But I first called on Gold- smith to take leave of him . The jealousy and envy which , though possessed of many most amiable qualities , he frankly avowed , broke out violently at this interview . Upon another occasion ...
But I first called on Gold- smith to take leave of him . The jealousy and envy which , though possessed of many most amiable qualities , he frankly avowed , broke out violently at this interview . Upon another occasion ...
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Page 362 - 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 98 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Page 366 - 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 114 - 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 348 - 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 130 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Page 29 - 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 200 - I sell here, Sir, what all the " world desires to have, — POWER' He had about seven
Page 26 - 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 296 - 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.
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| Title | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Library of English classics Volume 2 of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, James Boswell |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Publisher | Macmillan and Company, 1922 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Jan 2006 |
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