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A Scripture expression may be used , like a highly classical phrase , to produce an instantaneous strong impression ; and it may be done without being at all im- proper . Yet I own there is danger , that applying the language of our ...
A Scripture expression may be used , like a highly classical phrase , to produce an instantaneous strong impression ; and it may be done without being at all im- proper . Yet I own there is danger , that applying the language of our ...
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I admit that the great increase of commerce and manufactures hurts the military spirit of a people ; because it produces a competition for something else than martial honours , -a competition for riches . It also hurts the bodies of the ...
I admit that the great increase of commerce and manufactures hurts the military spirit of a people ; because it produces a competition for something else than martial honours , -a competition for riches . It also hurts the bodies of the ...
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I maintained that the position might be true in those kinds of know- ledge which produce wisdom , power , and force , so as to enable one man to have the government of others ; but that a man is not in any degree lessened by others ...
I maintained that the position might be true in those kinds of know- ledge which produce wisdom , power , and force , so as to enable one man to have the government of others ; but that a man is not in any degree lessened by others ...
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SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS : " I do not perceive why the profession of a player should be despised ; for the great and ultimate end of all the employments of mankind is to produce amusement . Garrick produces more amusement than any body .
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS : " I do not perceive why the profession of a player should be despised ; for the great and ultimate end of all the employments of mankind is to produce amusement . Garrick produces more amusement than any body .
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Let us hear no more of his " injustice to Milton . " B. 1 First published in 1659. Despite the guesses of three centuries the author is still unknown . BOSWELL AT THE CLUB 27 Goldsmith produced some very absurd 26 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF ...
Let us hear no more of his " injustice to Milton . " B. 1 First published in 1659. Despite the guesses of three centuries the author is still unknown . BOSWELL AT THE CLUB 27 Goldsmith produced some very absurd 26 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF ...
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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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