The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland, 1787 - 605 oldal |
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... whose broken fortunes drive , or a confidence in their abilities tempts to feek a maintenance in it . Men of low ex- traction , domestic fervants , and clerks to eminent lawyers , have become special pleaders and advocates ; and , by an ...
... whose broken fortunes drive , or a confidence in their abilities tempts to feek a maintenance in it . Men of low ex- traction , domestic fervants , and clerks to eminent lawyers , have become special pleaders and advocates ; and , by an ...
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... whose occu- pation was the publishing anonymous treafon and flander . One of the original inhabitants of this street was Fox the Martyrologist , who , during his abode there , wrote his Acts and Monuments . It was also rendered famous ...
... whose occu- pation was the publishing anonymous treafon and flander . One of the original inhabitants of this street was Fox the Martyrologist , who , during his abode there , wrote his Acts and Monuments . It was also rendered famous ...
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... whose abilities I fhall fay nothing fince I send you his performance , ) I believed I could not procure more advantageous terms from any person than from you , who have fo much diftinguished yourself by your generous encouragement of ...
... whose abilities I fhall fay nothing fince I send you his performance , ) I believed I could not procure more advantageous terms from any person than from you , who have fo much diftinguished yourself by your generous encouragement of ...
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... whose name I could never learn , and published in a closely printed duodecimo , he was enabled to complete , and in an abridgment to infert in Cave's Maga- zine . Various other projects about this time did he form of publications on ...
... whose name I could never learn , and published in a closely printed duodecimo , he was enabled to complete , and in an abridgment to infert in Cave's Maga- zine . Various other projects about this time did he form of publications on ...
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... whose interest is contrary to our own , have been at any time ferved by honeft and wife men , there was a time when our • minifters could act only by conjecture , and might ⚫ be mistaken without a crime . C If it was always in our ...
... whose interest is contrary to our own , have been at any time ferved by honeft and wife men , there was a time when our • minifters could act only by conjecture , and might ⚫ be mistaken without a crime . C If it was always in our ...
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556. 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 fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
594. oldal - Mr. Hoole, his son, each a book at their election, to keep as a token of remembrance.
291. oldal - When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification, I have familiarized the terms of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas, but have rarely admitted any word not authorized by former writers...
563. oldal - ... with a look that cut me to the heart, told me that he had the prospect of death before him, and that he dreaded to meet his Saviour.
198. oldal - The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die...
127. oldal - ... which neither hope nor fear shall influence me to suppress. I will not sit unconcerned while my liberty is invaded, nor look in silence upon public robbery.
488. oldal - I was born in the eighth climate, but seem to be framed and constellated unto all. I am no plant that will not prosper out of a garden. All places, all airs, make unto me one country ; I am in England everywhere, and under any meridian.
286. oldal - The place appointed was the Devil Tavern, and there, about the hour of eight, Mrs. Lenox and her husband, and a lady of her acquaintance, still [1785] living, as also the club, and friends to the number of near twenty, assembled.
257. oldal - Johnson made it a rule to talk his best, but that on many subjects he was not uniform in his opinions, contending as often for victory as for truth : at one time good, at another evil was predominant in the moral constitution of the world. Upon one occasion, he would deplore the nonobservance of Good-Friday, and on another deny, that among us of the present age there is any decline of public worship.
187. oldal - Well (my little Philip) this is enough for me, and too much I fear for you. But, if I shall find that this light meal of digestion nourish anything the weak stomach of your young capacity, I will, as I find the same grow stronger, feed it with tougher food. Your loving Father, so long as you live in the fear of God, H. SYDNEY...