The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and additions to the first edition, Volume 21822 |
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... respect for his honest conscientious zeal , the same indignant and sarcastical mode of treat- ing every attempt to unhinge or weaken good prin- ciples . One evening , when a young gentleman teased him with an account of the infidelity ...
... respect for his honest conscientious zeal , the same indignant and sarcastical mode of treat- ing every attempt to unhinge or weaken good prin- ciples . One evening , when a young gentleman teased him with an account of the infidelity ...
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... respects to all my Lincolnshire friends . I am , dear Sir , March 9 , 1766 . " Johnson's court , Fleet - street ... respect . He died Sept. 14 , 1772. A more particular account of this gentleman may be found in a Note on the Life of ...
... respects to all my Lincolnshire friends . I am , dear Sir , March 9 , 1766 . " Johnson's court , Fleet - street ... respect . He died Sept. 14 , 1772. A more particular account of this gentleman may be found in a Note on the Life of ...
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... respect to the memory of the Rev. Mr. James Stuart , late Minister of Killin , distinguished by his eminent Piety , Learning , and Taste . The amiable simplicity of his life , his warm benevolence , his indefatigable and successful ...
... respect to the memory of the Rev. Mr. James Stuart , late Minister of Killin , distinguished by his eminent Piety , Learning , and Taste . The amiable simplicity of his life , his warm benevolence , his indefatigable and successful ...
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... respects they were mended , for they had put their press under better regulations , and were at that time print- 2 The particulars of this conversation I have been at great pains to collect with the utmost authenticity , from Dr ...
... respects they were mended , for they had put their press under better regulations , and were at that time print- 2 The particulars of this conversation I have been at great pains to collect with the utmost authenticity , from Dr ...
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... respect , but still in his firm manly manner , with a sonorous voice , and never in that subdued tone which is commonly used at the levee and in the drawing - room . After the King withdrew , John- son shewed himself highly pleased with ...
... respect , but still in his firm manly manner , with a sonorous voice , and never in that subdued tone which is commonly used at the levee and in the drawing - room . After the King withdrew , John- son shewed himself highly pleased with ...
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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.