The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan and Company, 1922 - Authors, English |
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... tell Mrs. Williams that we were coming to drink tea with her , which we did . It was settled that we should go to church together next day . On the 9th of April , being Good Friday , I breakfasted with him on tea and cross - buns ...
... tell Mrs. Williams that we were coming to drink tea with her , which we did . It was settled that we should go to church together next day . On the 9th of April , being Good Friday , I breakfasted with him on tea and cross - buns ...
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... tell of almost all the living great what they do not wish told . " GOLDSMITH : " It may , perhaps , be necessary for a native to be more cautious ; but a foreigner who comes among us without prejudice , may be con- sidered as holding ...
... tell of almost all the living great what they do not wish told . " GOLDSMITH : " It may , perhaps , be necessary for a native to be more cautious ; but a foreigner who comes among us without prejudice , may be con- sidered as holding ...
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... tell a hundred political lies every day , and are not hurt by it . Surely , then , one may tell truth with safety . " JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , in the first place , he who tells a hundred lies has disarmed the force of his lies . But ...
... tell a hundred political lies every day , and are not hurt by it . Surely , then , one may tell truth with safety . " JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , in the first place , he who tells a hundred lies has disarmed the force of his lies . But ...
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... tell you , is a good deal . " GOLDSMITH : " But I cannot agree that it was so . His literary reputation was dead long before his natural death . I consider an author's literary reputation to be alive only while his name will insure a ...
... tell you , is a good deal . " GOLDSMITH : " But I cannot agree that it was so . His literary reputation was dead long before his natural death . I consider an author's literary reputation to be alive only while his name will insure a ...
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... tell him the right of another man ; they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry . Opinion , which he that holds it may call his conscience , may teach some men that religion would be promoted , and quiet preserved ...
... tell him the right of another man ; they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry . Opinion , which he that holds it may call his conscience , may teach some men that religion would be promoted , and quiet preserved ...
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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.