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1 I could not agree with him in this criticism ; for though Sir John Dalrymple's style is not regularly formed in any respect , and one cannot help smiling sometimes at his affected grandiloquence , there is in his writing a pointed ...
1 I could not agree with him in this criticism ; for though Sir John Dalrymple's style is not regularly formed in any respect , and one cannot help smiling sometimes at his affected grandiloquence , there is in his writing a pointed ...
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At the same time I own , that it is a very difficult question , when considered with respect to the House of Stuart . To oblige people to take oaths as to the disputed right , is wrong . I know not whether I could take them but I do not ...
At the same time I own , that it is a very difficult question , when considered with respect to the House of Stuart . To oblige people to take oaths as to the disputed right , is wrong . I know not whether I could take them but I do not ...
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In this respect he is only on a footing with a lawyer , who exhibits himself for his fee , and even will maintain any nonsense or absurdity , if the case require it . Garrick refuses a play or a part which he does not like : a lawyer ...
In this respect he is only on a footing with a lawyer , who exhibits himself for his fee , and even will maintain any nonsense or absurdity , if the case require it . Garrick refuses a play or a part which he does not like : a lawyer ...
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Suppose a club were to be formed , to drink confusion to King George the Third , and a happy restoration to Charles the Third ; this would be very bad with respect to the State ; but every member of that club must either conform to its ...
Suppose a club were to be formed , to drink confusion to King George the Third , and a happy restoration to Charles the Third ; this would be very bad with respect to the State ; but every member of that club must either conform to its ...
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LORD HAILES has begged of me to offer you his best respects , and to transmit to you specimens of ' Annals of ... and that neither by word nor letter has he made the least complaint of you ; but on the con- trary has a high respect for ...
LORD HAILES has begged of me to offer you his best respects , and to transmit to you specimens of ' Annals of ... and that neither by word nor letter has he made the least complaint of you ; but on the con- trary has a high respect for ...
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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.
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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.
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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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