The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 - Authors, English |
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Page vii
... effects of the satire . I own , indeed , that I was arrogant enough to suppose , that the tenour of the rest of the book would sufficiently guard me against such a strange imputation . But , it seems , I judged too well of the world ...
... effects of the satire . I own , indeed , that I was arrogant enough to suppose , that the tenour of the rest of the book would sufficiently guard me against such a strange imputation . But , it seems , I judged too well of the world ...
Page xiii
... effects which were hoped for by its propagators . 6 It seems to me , in my moments of self - complacency , that this extensive biographical work , however inferior in its nature , may in one respect be assimilated to the Odyssey ...
... effects which were hoped for by its propagators . 6 It seems to me , in my moments of self - complacency , that this extensive biographical work , however inferior in its nature , may in one respect be assimilated to the Odyssey ...
Page xxiii
... effects it would have produced had the historians and biographers of every age been under its influence . " How happy would the learned world have been , " says the present bishop Huntingford , " had Pericles , Plato , or Socrates ...
... effects it would have produced had the historians and biographers of every age been under its influence . " How happy would the learned world have been , " says the present bishop Huntingford , " had Pericles , Plato , or Socrates ...
Page 10
... effects are well known to be a weariness of life , an un- concern about those things which agitate the greater part of mankind , and a general sensation of gloomy wretched- From him then his son inherited , with some other qualities ...
... effects are well known to be a weariness of life , an un- concern about those things which agitate the greater part of mankind , and a general sensation of gloomy wretched- From him then his son inherited , with some other qualities ...
Page 17
... effect . I ventured to say to him , in allusion to the political principles in which he was educated , and of which he ever retained some odour , that " his mother had not carried him far enough ; she should have taken him to Rome ...
... effect . I ventured to say to him , in allusion to the political principles in which he was educated , and of which he ever retained some odour , that " his mother had not carried him far enough ; she should have taken him to Rome ...
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