 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 pages
...except that from the beginning of this year I have in some measure forborn excess of Strong Drink my appetites have predominated over my reason. A kind...intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression. This is not the life to which Heaven is promised 4. I purpose ' Quoted in the Life, i. 482. pulse to... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - Authors, English - 1897 - 512 pages
...except that from the beginning of this year I have in some measure forborn excess of Strong Drink my appetites have predominated over my reason. A kind...intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression. This is not the life to which Heaven is promised 4. I purpose ' Quoted in the Life, i. 482. pulse to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Criminal law - 1898 - 602 pages
...self-reproaches. "My indolence," he wrote on Easter eye' in 1764, " has sunk into grosser sluggishness. -/A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so...that I know not what has become of the last year." Easter 1765 came, and found him still in the same state. " My time," he wrote, "has been unprofitably... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1900 - 928 pages
...that from the beginning of this year I have, in some measure, forborne excess of strong drinks, my I did not know. As a dinner here was considered as...subject, my readers may perhaps be desirous to know our :"t and he earnestly resolves ait amendment. It was his custom to observe certain days with a pious... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 pages
...except that from the beginning of this year I have, in some measure, forborne excess of strong drink, my appetites have predominated over my reason. A kind..."This is not the life to which heaven is promised ; " b and he earnestly resolves on amendment. It was his custom to observe certain days with a pious... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1900 - 562 pages
...more addicted to wine and meat " (Pr. and Med. p. 58). And next morning he thus feelingly complains : predominated over my reason. A kind of strange oblivion...This is not the life to which heaven is promised" (Ibid. p. 51); and he earnestly resolves an amendment. It was his custom to observe certain days with... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1900 - 680 pages
...self-reproaches. " My indolence," he wrote on Easter Eve in 1764, " has sunk into grosser sluggishness. A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year." Easter, 1765, came, and found him still in the same state. " My time," he wrote, " has been unprofitably... | |
 | 1900 - 674 pages
...has spread over me," he says in April, 1764, "so that I know not what has become of the last years, and perceive that incidents and intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression." It seems, however, that he was still frequently in difficulties. Letters are preserved showing that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 pages
...except that from the beginning of this year I have in some measure forborne excess of strong drink, my appetites have predominated over my reason. A kind...intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression. This is not the life to which heaven is promised. I purpose to approach the altar * Disorder I have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Prayers - 1902 - 130 pages
...to wine and meat." And on the following day he added : " A kind of strange oblivion has overpowered me, so that I know not what has become of the last...intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression. This is not the life to which Heaven is promised. ' ' Boswell attributes the increased indolence out... | |
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A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year; and perceive that incidents and intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression. 
