The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and additions to the first edition, Volume 21822 |
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... Italy , John- son said , ( sarcastically , ) " It seems , 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 ...
... Italy , John- son said , ( sarcastically , ) " It seems , 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 ...
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... Italian friend Baretti : where talking of the monastic life , you say you do not wonder that serious men should put themselves under the protection of a religious order , when they have found how unable they are to take care of ...
... Italian friend Baretti : where talking of the monastic life , you say you do not wonder that serious men should put themselves under the protection of a religious order , when they have found how unable they are to take care of ...
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... Italy , seen the experiment of placing a scorpion within a circle of burning coals ; that it ran round and round in ex- treme pain ; and finding no way to escape , retired to the centre , and like a true Stoick philosopher , darted its ...
... Italy , seen the experiment of placing a scorpion within a circle of burning coals ; that it ran round and round in ex- treme pain ; and finding no way to escape , retired to the centre , and like a true Stoick philosopher , darted its ...
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... Italy is a very entertaining book ; and , Sir , I know no man who carries his head higher in conversation than Baretti . There are strong powers in his mind . He has not , in- deed , many hooks ; but with what hooks he has , he grapples ...
... Italy is a very entertaining book ; and , Sir , I know no man who carries his head higher in conversation than Baretti . There are strong powers in his mind . He has not , in- deed , many hooks ; but with what hooks he has , he grapples ...
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... Italian , and Dr. Johnson English , and understood one another very well , with a little aid of interpretation from me , in which I compared myself to an isthmus which joins two great continents . Upon Johnson's approach , the General ...
... Italian , and Dr. Johnson English , and understood one another very well , with a little aid of interpretation from me , in which I compared myself to an isthmus which joins two great continents . Upon Johnson's approach , the General ...
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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.