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... admirably . For instance , he tells us that the cow sheds her horns every two years ; a most palpable errour , which Goldsmith has faithfully transferred into his book . It is wonderful that Buffon , who lived so much in the country ...
... admirably . For instance , he tells us that the cow sheds her horns every two years ; a most palpable errour , which Goldsmith has faithfully transferred into his book . It is wonderful that Buffon , who lived so much in the country ...
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... admirable and encouraging ; and it must impress all the thinking part of my readers with a consolatory confidence in habitual devotion , when they see a man of such enlarged intellectual powers as Johnson , thus in the genuine ...
... admirable and encouraging ; and it must impress all the thinking part of my readers with a consolatory confidence in habitual devotion , when they see a man of such enlarged intellectual powers as Johnson , thus in the genuine ...
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... admirable performance , " The lives of the English Poets , " which is the richest , most beauti- ful , and indeed most perfect , production of John- son's pen . His notion of it at this time appears in the preceding letter . He has a ...
... admirable performance , " The lives of the English Poets , " which is the richest , most beauti- ful , and indeed most perfect , production of John- son's pen . His notion of it at this time appears in the preceding letter . He has a ...
Page 120
... able and great . " Such characters , if now and then they appear in history , are contemplated with admiration . May it be the ambition of all your subjects to make 120 THE LIFE OF 1777. Zachary Pearce, Bishop of Rochester; being ...
... able and great . " Such characters , if now and then they appear in history , are contemplated with admiration . May it be the ambition of all your subjects to make 120 THE LIFE OF 1777. Zachary Pearce, Bishop of Rochester; being ...
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... admirable at any age ; but more particularly so at the advanced period at which Johnson was then arrived . I am sorry now that I did not insist on our executing that scheme . Besides the other objects of curiosity and observation , to ...
... admirable at any age ; but more particularly so at the advanced period at which Johnson was then arrived . I am sorry now that I did not insist on our executing that scheme . Besides the other objects of curiosity and observation , to ...
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Page 220 - How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes T' and in his conversation with Mr.
Page 196 - Why, Sir, you \ find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. \ No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Page 318 - ... to certainty, freedom ceases, because that cannot be certainly foreknown which is not certain at the time; but if it be certain at the time, it is a contradiction in terms to maintain that there can be afterwards any contingency dependent upon the exercise of will or any thing else." JOHNSON. " All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Page 398 - ... perpetual jarring of those whom he charitably accommodated under his roof. He has sometimes suffered me to talk jocularly of his group of females, and call them his Seraglio. He thus mentions them, together with honest Levett, in one of his letters to Mrs. Thrale : " Williams hates every body ; Levett hates Desmoulins, and does not love Williams ; Desmoulins hates them both ; Poll loves none of them.
Page 377 - He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all.
Page 35 - A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean.
Page 67 - Provided, sir, I suppose, that the company which he is to have, is agreeable to you." JOHNSON. "What do you mean, sir? What do you take me for? Do you think I am so ignorant of the world as to imagine that I am to prescribe to a gentleman what company he is to have at his table?
Page 66 - Notwithstanding the high veneration which I entertained for Dr. Johnson, I was sensible that he was sometimes a little actuated by the spirit of contradiction, and by means of that I hoped I should gain my point. I was persuaded that if I had come upon him with a direct proposal, "Sir, will you dine in company with Jack Wilkes?" he would have flown into a passion, and would probably have answered, "Dine with Jack Wilkes, Sir ! I'd as soon dine with Jack Ketch.
Page 332 - I am a straggler. I may leave this town and go to Grand Cairo, without being missed here or observed there." EDWARDS. "Don't you eat supper, Sir?
Page 32 - Reviewers (said he) are not Deists ; but they are Christians with as little Christianity as may be ; and are for pulling down all establishments. The Critical Reviewers are for supporting the constitution, both in church and state. The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the books through ; but lay hold of a topick, and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly Reviewers are duller men, and are glad to read the books through.