The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone, 5. kötet1821 |
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... Lord Bute's seat at Luton Hoe . He talked little to us in the carriage , being chiefly occupied in reading Dr. Wat- son's second volume of " Chemical Essays , " which he liked very well , and his own " Prince of Abyssinia , " on which ...
... Lord Bute's seat at Luton Hoe . He talked little to us in the carriage , being chiefly occupied in reading Dr. Wat- son's second volume of " Chemical Essays , " which he liked very well , and his own " Prince of Abyssinia , " on which ...
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... Lord Monboddo's notion ' that the ancient Egyptians , with all their learning , and all their arts , were not only black , but woolly - haired . Mr. Palmer asked how did it appear upon examining the mummies ? Dr. Johnson approved of ...
... Lord Monboddo's notion ' that the ancient Egyptians , with all their learning , and all their arts , were not only black , but woolly - haired . Mr. Palmer asked how did it appear upon examining the mummies ? Dr. Johnson approved of ...
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... Lord Bute's magnificent seat , for which I had obtained a ticket . As we entered the park , I talked in a high style of my old friendship with Lord Mountstuart , and said , " I shall probably be much at this place . " The Sage , aware ...
... Lord Bute's magnificent seat , for which I had obtained a ticket . As we entered the park , I talked in a high style of my old friendship with Lord Mountstuart , and said , " I shall probably be much at this place . " The Sage , aware ...
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... Lords , these are at- tempts of dangerous tendency , which the Solicitors , as men versed in the law , should have foreseen and avoided . It was natural for an ignorant printer to appeal from the Lord Ordinary ; but from lawyers , the ...
... Lords , these are at- tempts of dangerous tendency , which the Solicitors , as men versed in the law , should have foreseen and avoided . It was natural for an ignorant printer to appeal from the Lord Ordinary ; but from lawyers , the ...
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... Lord Bute's never going to Scotland , he said , " As an Englishman , I should wish all the Scotch gentlemen should be educated in England ; Scotland would become a province ; they would spend all their rents in England . " This is a ...
... Lord Bute's never going to Scotland , he said , " As an Englishman , I should wish all the Scotch gentlemen should be educated in England ; Scotland would become a province ; they would spend all their rents in England . " This is a ...
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165. oldal - Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
24. oldal - His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void ; And sure the eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd.
198. oldal - Johnson having argued for some time with a pertinacious gentleman ; his opponent, who had talked in a very puzzling manner, happened to say, " I don't understand you, Sir ; " upon which Johnson observed, " Sir, I have found you an argument ; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
314. oldal - He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the marvellous and the mysterious, his vigorous reason examined the evidence with jealousy.
292. oldal - Signed, sealed, published and Declared by the said Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the Presence of us who in his presence and at his request and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as Witnesses thereto.
166. oldal - Bacon upon this subject ; testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow ; the force of it depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. Argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has equal force though shot by a child.
220. oldal - Veneration for his virtue, reverence for his talents, delight in his conversation, and habitual endurance of a yoke my husband first put upon me, and of which he contentedly bore his share for sixteen or seventeen years, made me go on so long with Mr. Johnson; but the perpetual confinement I will own to have been terrifying in the first years of our friendship, and irksome in the last; nor could I pretend to support it without help, when my coadjutor was no more.
24. oldal - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. " Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
182. oldal - It is the most extraordinary thing that has happened in my day. I heard it with my own ears, from his uncle, Lord Westcote. I am so glad to have every evidence of the spiritual world, that I am willing to believe it.
165. oldal - I THEREFORE, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called...