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... ( faid I ) it is commonly thought that our veal in Scotland is not good . But here is fome which I believe you will like . " - There was no catching him . - Johnson . Why , Sir , what is commonly thought , I fhould take to be true . Your ...
... ( faid I ) it is commonly thought that our veal in Scotland is not good . But here is fome which I believe you will like . " - There was no catching him . - Johnson . Why , Sir , what is commonly thought , I fhould take to be true . Your ...
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... ( faid he ) like maids round a May - pole . " - I told him , I had found out a perfect definition of human nature , as distin- guished from the Animal . An ancient philofopher faid , Man was a two - legged animal without feathers " upon ...
... ( faid he ) like maids round a May - pole . " - I told him , I had found out a perfect definition of human nature , as distin- guished from the Animal . An ancient philofopher faid , Man was a two - legged animal without feathers " upon ...
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... faid , he could not understand how a man could apply to one thing , and not to another . Robertfon faid , one man had more judgment , another more imagination . -Johnson . himself , with claffical admiration ) applied to him what Horace ...
... faid , he could not understand how a man could apply to one thing , and not to another . Robertfon faid , one man had more judgment , another more imagination . -Johnson . himself , with claffical admiration ) applied to him what Horace ...
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... faid , " the action of all players in tragedy is bad . It should be a man's ftudy to repress those signs of emotion and paffion , as they are called . " He was of a direct contrary opinion to that of Fielding , in his Tom Jones , who ...
... faid , " the action of all players in tragedy is bad . It should be a man's ftudy to repress those signs of emotion and paffion , as they are called . " He was of a direct contrary opinion to that of Fielding , in his Tom Jones , who ...
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... faid to this lady , What foolish talk- ing have we had ! ' " Yes , ( faid she ) but while they talked , you faid nothing . " " I was ftruck with the reproof . How much better ist the man who does any thing that is innocent , that he who ...
... faid to this lady , What foolish talk- ing have we had ! ' " Yes , ( faid she ) but while they talked , you faid nothing . " " I was ftruck with the reproof . How much better ist the man who does any thing that is innocent , that he who ...
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Page 414 - 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. Far from me and...
Page 7 - ... the order of society, and from a veneration for the Great Source of all order ; correct, nay stern in his taste ; hard to please, and easily offended, impetuous and irritable in his temper, but of a most humane and benevolent heart...
Page 238 - Our ancestors having most indisputably a competent jurisdiction to decide this great and important question, and having, in fact, decided it, it is now become our duty, at this distance of...
Page 18 - There must always be some advantage, on one side or other; and it is better that advantage should be had by talents, than by chance. If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.
Page 8 - He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the marvellous and the mysterious, his vigorous reason examined the evidence with jealousy.
Page 156 - Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.
Page 211 - Tartan waistcoat with gold buttons and gold button-holes, a bluish philibeg, and Tartan hose. He had jet black hair tied behind, and was a large stately man, with a steady sensible countenance.
Page 7 - In him were united a most logical head with a most fertile imagination, which gave him an extraordinary advantage in arguing: for he could reason close or wide, as he saw best for the moment. Exulting in his intellectual...
Page 271 - There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.
Page 103 - Johnson, upon all occasions, expressed his approbation of enforcing instruction by means of the rod. "I would rather [said he] have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them learn, than tell a child, if you do thus, or thus, you will be -more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of superiority, you lay...