The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 1Heritage Press, 1963 - Authors, English |
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Page 79
... truth is every where confess'd , SLOW RISES WORTH , BY POVERTY DEPRESS'D ! ' We may easily conceive with what feeling a great mind like his , cramped and galled by narrow circumstances , uttered this last line , which he marked by ...
... truth is every where confess'd , SLOW RISES WORTH , BY POVERTY DEPRESS'D ! ' We may easily conceive with what feeling a great mind like his , cramped and galled by narrow circumstances , uttered this last line , which he marked by ...
Page 314
... Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity ; so they have betaken themselves to errour . Truth , Sir , is a cow which will yield such people no more milk , and so they are gone to milk the bull . If I could have allowed ...
... Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity ; so they have betaken themselves to errour . Truth , Sir , is a cow which will yield such people no more milk , and so they are gone to milk the bull . If I could have allowed ...
Page 321
... truth . A system , built upon the discoveries of a great many minds , is always of more strength , than what is produced by the mere workings of any one mind , which , of itself , can do little . There is not so poor a book in the world ...
... truth . A system , built upon the discoveries of a great many minds , is always of more strength , than what is produced by the mere workings of any one mind , which , of itself , can do little . There is not so poor a book in the world ...
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