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... told of you by yourself , or others ; and when you return , you will return , to an unaltered , and , I hope , unalterable friend . " All that you have to fear from me is 2 [ 1765 . THE LIFE OF He once dedicated some Musick for the ...
... told of you by yourself , or others ; and when you return , you will return , to an unaltered , and , I hope , unalterable friend . " All that you have to fear from me is 2 [ 1765 . THE LIFE OF He once dedicated some Musick for the ...
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... told him that Voltaire , in a con- versation with me , had distinguished Pope and Dryden thus : - " Pope drives a handsome chariot , with a couple of neat trim nags ; Dryden a coach , and six stately horses . " JOHNSON . " Why , Sir ...
... told him that Voltaire , in a con- versation with me , had distinguished Pope and Dryden thus : - " Pope drives a handsome chariot , with a couple of neat trim nags ; Dryden a coach , and six stately horses . " JOHNSON . " Why , Sir ...
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... told him that a foreign friend of his , whom I had met with abroad , was so wretchedly perverted to infideli- ty , that he treated the hopes of immortality with brutal levity ; and said , " As man dies like a dog , let him lie like a ...
... told him that a foreign friend of his , whom I had met with abroad , was so wretchedly perverted to infideli- ty , that he treated the hopes of immortality with brutal levity ; and said , " As man dies like a dog , let him lie like a ...
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... told you . The little things which distinguish domestick characters are soon forgotten : if you delay to enquire , you will have no information ; if you neglect to write , information will be vain . 7 5 Mr. Langton's uncle . 6 The place ...
... told you . The little things which distinguish domestick characters are soon forgotten : if you delay to enquire , you will have no information ; if you neglect to write , information will be vain . 7 5 Mr. Langton's uncle . 6 The place ...
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... told his servants , that if that did not suffice , he would allow them more ; but , by this method , it appeared at once that the allowance was much more than sufficient for his small family ; and this proved a clear conviction , that ...
... told his servants , that if that did not suffice , he would allow them more ; but , by this method , it appeared at once that the allowance was much more than sufficient for his small family ; and this proved a clear conviction , that ...
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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.