Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson, 1. kötetClarendon Press, 1888 - 323 oldal |
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... labour of perusal , that they give the mind an unfashionable cast , and destroy that freedom of thought and easiness of manners indispensably requisite to acceptance in the world . Tom has therefore found another way to wisdom . When he ...
... labour of perusal , that they give the mind an unfashionable cast , and destroy that freedom of thought and easiness of manners indispensably requisite to acceptance in the world . Tom has therefore found another way to wisdom . When he ...
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... labour . Thebais , multa cruciata lima , Tentat , audaci fide , Mantuanæ Gaudia fama . Polish'd with endless toil , my lays At length aspire to Mantuan praise . Rambler , No. 169 . NOTHING is more common than to find men whose works are ...
... labour . Thebais , multa cruciata lima , Tentat , audaci fide , Mantuanæ Gaudia fama . Polish'd with endless toil , my lays At length aspire to Mantuan praise . Rambler , No. 169 . NOTHING is more common than to find men whose works are ...
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... labour should be fruitless . Rambler , No. 21 . Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson . MANY causes may vitiate a writer's judgment of his own works . On that which has cost him much labour he sets a high value because he is unwilling to ...
... labour should be fruitless . Rambler , No. 21 . Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson . MANY causes may vitiate a writer's judgment of his own works . On that which has cost him much labour he sets a high value because he is unwilling to ...
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... labour or of stripes . Works , vi . 229 . Christ's teaching : Or the Divine Author of our religion it is impossible to peruse the evangelical histories without observing how little he favoured the vanity of inquisitiveness ; how much ...
... labour or of stripes . Works , vi . 229 . Christ's teaching : Or the Divine Author of our religion it is impossible to peruse the evangelical histories without observing how little he favoured the vanity of inquisitiveness ; how much ...
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... labour of deserving it , in which the most elevated mind is willing to descend , and the most active to be at rest . therefore are at some hour or another fond of companions whom they can entertain upon easy terms , and who will relieve ...
... labour of deserving it , in which the most elevated mind is willing to descend , and the most active to be at rest . therefore are at some hour or another fond of companions whom they can entertain upon easy terms , and who will relieve ...
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43. oldal - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
42. oldal - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
156. 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.
42. oldal - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship.
288. oldal - 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.
30. oldal - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful ; for not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use ; but...
176. oldal - DISORDERS of intellect, answered Imlac, happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
155. oldal - Condemn'd to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave descend ; Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills Affection's eye, Obscurely wise and coarsely kind ; Nor...
316. oldal - When we see men grow old and die at a certain time one after another, from century to century, we laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong life to a thousand years; and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided who, being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in his power to change sublunary nature and clear the world...
119. oldal - Imlac,) I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth...