The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and additions to the first edition, Volume 21822 |
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... DEAR SIR , I " APOLOGIES are seldom of any use . We will de- lay till your arrival the reasons , good or bad , which have made me such a sparing and ungrateful correspondent Be assured , for the present , that nothing has lessened ...
... DEAR SIR , I " APOLOGIES are seldom of any use . We will de- lay till your arrival the reasons , good or bad , which have made me such a sparing and ungrateful correspondent Be assured , for the present , that nothing has lessened ...
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... dear Sir , " Your affectionate humble servant , " Johnson's Court , Fleet - street , January 14 , 1766 . " SAM . JOHNSON . " I returned to London in February , and found Dr. Johnson in a good house in Johnson's - court , B 2 Etat . 56 ...
... dear Sir , " Your affectionate humble servant , " Johnson's Court , Fleet - street , January 14 , 1766 . " SAM . JOHNSON . " I returned to London in February , and found Dr. Johnson in a good house in Johnson's - court , B 2 Etat . 56 ...
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... Sir , I never was near enough to great men , to court them . You may be prudently attached to great men , and yet independent . You are not to do what you think wrong ; and , Sir , you are to calculate , and not pay too dear for what ...
... Sir , I never was near enough to great men , to court them . You may be prudently attached to great men , and yet independent . You are not to do what you think wrong ; and , Sir , you are to calculate , and not pay too dear for what ...
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... Sir , you have kept very good company abroad , Rousseau and Wilkes ! " Thinking it enough to defend one at a time , I said nothing as to my gay friend , but answered with a smile , 66 My dear Sir , you don't call Rousseau bad company ...
... Sir , you have kept very good company abroad , Rousseau and Wilkes ! " Thinking it enough to defend one at a time , I said nothing as to my gay friend , but answered with a smile , 66 My dear Sir , you don't call Rousseau bad company ...
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... DEAR SIR , " WHAT your friends have done , that from your departure till now nothing has been heard of you , none of us are able to inform the rest ; but as we are all neglected alike , no one thinks himself entitled to the privilege of ...
... DEAR SIR , " WHAT your friends have done , that from your departure till now nothing has been heard of you , none of us are able to inform the rest ; but as we are all neglected alike , no one thinks himself entitled to the privilege of ...
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Page 301 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Page 207 - Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem to think; for if you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like WHALES.
Page 424 - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Page 314 - He made the common remark on the unhappiness which men who have led a busy life experience, when they retire in expectation of enjoying themselves at ease, and that they generally languish for want of their habitual occupation, and wish to return to it. He mentioned as strong an instance of this as can well be imagined.
Page 150 - But, Sir, in the British Constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the Crown ". JoHNSON : " Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig. — Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the Crown ? The Crown has not power enough.
Page 112 - the poor in England were better provided for than in any other country of the same extent: he did not mean little Cantons, or petty Republicks. Where a great proportion of the people...
Page 205 - ... that the fear of something made him resolve ; it is upon the state of his mind, after the resolution is taken, that I argue. Suppose a man either from fear, or pride, or conscience, or whatever motive, has resolved to kill himself; when once the resolution is taken, he has nothing to fear. He may then go and take the King of Prussia by the nose, at the head of his army. He cannot fear the rack, who is resolved to kill himself. When Eustace...
Page 1 - Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. A peasant has not capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher.
Page 211 - Yet there is no man whose company is more liked.' JOHNSON. 'To be sure, Sir. When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer, their inferiour while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.