The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan and Company, 1922 - Authors, English |
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... truth . He was like a man who resolves to regulate his time by a certain watch ; but will not inquire whether the watch is right or not . " " " Though he was not disposed to talk , he was unwilling that I should leave him ; and when I ...
... truth . He was like a man who resolves to regulate his time by a certain watch ; but will not inquire whether the watch is right or not . " " " Though he was not disposed to talk , he was unwilling that I should leave him ; and when I ...
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... truth with safety . " JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , in the first place , he who tells a hundred lies has disarmed the force of his lies . But besides , a man had rather have a hundred lies told of him , than one truth which he does not wish ...
... truth with safety . " JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , in the first place , he who tells a hundred lies has disarmed the force of his lies . But besides , a man had rather have a hundred lies told of him , than one truth which he does not wish ...
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... truth from himself . It , per- haps , was not quite fair to endeavour to bring him to a confession , as he might not wish to avow positively his taking part against the Court . He smiled and hesitated . The General at once relieved him ...
... truth from himself . It , per- haps , was not quite fair to endeavour to bring him to a confession , as he might not wish to avow positively his taking part against the Court . He smiled and hesitated . The General at once relieved him ...
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... truth . I dined with him this day at the house of my friends , Messieurs Edward and Charles Dilly , booksellers in the Poultry : there were present , their elder brother Mr. Dilly of Bedfordshire , Dr. Goldsmith , Mr. Langton , Mr ...
... truth . I dined with him this day at the house of my friends , Messieurs Edward and Charles Dilly , booksellers in the Poultry : there were present , their elder brother Mr. Dilly of Bedfordshire , Dr. Goldsmith , Mr. Langton , Mr ...
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... truth never can pre- vail ; and the magistrate was right in persecuting the first Christians . " JOHNSON : JOHNSON : " Sir , the only method by which religious truth can be established is by martyrdom . The ON TOLERATION ...
... truth never can pre- vail ; and the magistrate was right in persecuting the first Christians . " JOHNSON : JOHNSON : " Sir , the only method by which religious truth can be established is by martyrdom . The ON TOLERATION ...
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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.