The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan and Company, 1922 - Authors, English |
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... reasons : I cannot , ' said he , defend a bad , nor yield in a good cause . ' " JOHNSON : " Sir , this is false reasoning ; because every cause has a bad side and a lawyer is not overcome , though the cause which he has endeavoured to ...
... reasons : I cannot , ' said he , defend a bad , nor yield in a good cause . ' " JOHNSON : " Sir , this is false reasoning ; because every cause has a bad side and a lawyer is not overcome , though the cause which he has endeavoured to ...
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... reason that women servants , though obliged to be at the expense of purchasing their own clothes , have much lower wages than men servants , to whom a great proportion of that article is furnished , and when in fact our female house ...
... reason that women servants , though obliged to be at the expense of purchasing their own clothes , have much lower wages than men servants , to whom a great proportion of that article is furnished , and when in fact our female house ...
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... reason for applying to a particular person to do that which any one may do as well ? " JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , one man has greater readiness at doing it than another . " " " I spoke of Mr. Harris , of Salisbury , ' as being a very ...
... reason for applying to a particular person to do that which any one may do as well ? " JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , one man has greater readiness at doing it than another . " " " I spoke of Mr. Harris , of Salisbury , ' as being a very ...
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... reasons for its barbarous violence , is more justifiable than war in which thousands go forth without any cause of personal quarrel , and massacre each other . On Wednesday , April 21 , I dined with him at Mr. Thrale's . A gentleman ...
... reasons for its barbarous violence , is more justifiable than war in which thousands go forth without any cause of personal quarrel , and massacre each other . On Wednesday , April 21 , I dined with him at Mr. Thrale's . A gentleman ...
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... reason to flatter myself , had consid- erable effect in favour of Mr. Douglas : of whose legitimate filia- tion I was then , and am still , firmly convinced . Let me add , that no fact can be more respectably ascertained , than by the ...
... reason to flatter myself , had consid- erable effect in favour of Mr. Douglas : of whose legitimate filia- tion I was then , and am still , firmly convinced . Let me add , that no fact can be more respectably ascertained , than by the ...
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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.