The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and additions to the first edition, Volume 21822 |
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... able to teach it , and no profession so well as to be able to follow it , your general mass of knowledge of books and men renders you very capable to make yourself master of any science , or fit yourself for any profession . " I ...
... able to teach it , and no profession so well as to be able to follow it , your general mass of knowledge of books and men renders you very capable to make yourself master of any science , or fit yourself for any profession . " I ...
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... able to inform the rest ; but as we are all neglected alike , no one thinks himself entitled to the privilege of complaint . " I should have known nothing of you or of Lang- ton , from the time that dear Miss Langton left us , had not I ...
... able to inform the rest ; but as we are all neglected alike , no one thinks himself entitled to the privilege of complaint . " I should have known nothing of you or of Lang- ton , from the time that dear Miss Langton left us , had not I ...
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... able to improve our acquaintance to friendship . Many a time have I placed myself again at Langton , and imagined the pleasure with which I should walk to Partney in a summer morning ; but this is no longer possible . We must now ...
... able to improve our acquaintance to friendship . Many a time have I placed myself again at Langton , and imagined the pleasure with which I should walk to Partney in a summer morning ; but this is no longer possible . We must now ...
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... able , with such an income , to do so much , espe- cially when it is considered that he paid for every thing he had . He had no land , except the two or three small fields which I have said he rented ; and , instead of gaining any thing ...
... able , with such an income , to do so much , espe- cially when it is considered that he paid for every thing he had . He had no land , except the two or three small fields which I have said he rented ; and , instead of gaining any thing ...
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... able to do when the actual want came ; in consequence of which method , he had a considerable supply of necessary articles lying by him , be- side what was in use . 66 ' But the main particular that seems to have enabled him to do so ...
... able to do when the actual want came ; in consequence of which method , he had a considerable supply of necessary articles lying by him , be- side what was in use . 66 ' But the main particular that seems to have enabled him to do so ...
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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.