The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland ... [and 39 others], 1787 - 602 oldal |
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3. oldal
... once , bore , for a year , the office of bailiff or chief magiftrate thereof , and discharged the duties of that exalted station with honour and applaufe . It may here be proper , as it will account for fome particulars refpect- ing the ...
... once , bore , for a year , the office of bailiff or chief magiftrate thereof , and discharged the duties of that exalted station with honour and applaufe . It may here be proper , as it will account for fome particulars refpect- ing the ...
6. oldal
... the rudeness of his behaviour , would frequently call him the great boy , which the father once overhearing , faid , you you call him the great boy , but take my THE LIFE OF It may feem a ridiculous attempt to trace the dawn ...
... the rudeness of his behaviour , would frequently call him the great boy , which the father once overhearing , faid , you you call him the great boy , but take my THE LIFE OF It may feem a ridiculous attempt to trace the dawn ...
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... once , fignified to a friend who had been educated at the fame school with him , then at Christ- church , and intended for the bar , an inclination to the practice of the civil or the common law ; the for- mer of thefe required a long ...
... once , fignified to a friend who had been educated at the fame school with him , then at Christ- church , and intended for the bar , an inclination to the practice of the civil or the common law ; the for- mer of thefe required a long ...
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... once a day . ' C Zeal equal to this , and rifing in proportion to the oppofition it met with , did thefe pious fathers exercise during nine years that they remained in Abyffinia . Their fuccefs was various and fluctuating ; fometimes it ...
... once a day . ' C Zeal equal to this , and rifing in proportion to the oppofition it met with , did thefe pious fathers exercise during nine years that they remained in Abyffinia . Their fuccefs was various and fluctuating ; fometimes it ...
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... once , heard him affert , that he knew of no genuine motive for writing , other than ne- ceffity . In the prosecution of this his defign , he , in the year , 1734 , made a tender of affiftance to Cave , the editor , printer , and ...
... once , heard him affert , that he knew of no genuine motive for writing , other than ne- ceffity . In the prosecution of this his defign , he , in the year , 1734 , made a tender of affiftance to Cave , the editor , printer , and ...
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550. 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.
484. 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.
198. oldal - 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...
289. oldal - I have familiarized the terms of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas, but have rarely admitted any word not authorized by former writers...
360. oldal - I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.
342. oldal - Have put their whole drama and epick to flight ; In satires, epistles, and odes, would they cope, Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French *, and will beat forty more...
62. oldal - ... but, unfortunately, he is not capable of receiving their bounty, which would make him happy for life...
126. oldal - Excursions of fancy, and flights of oratory, are indeed, pardonable in young men, but in no other; and it would surely contribute more, even to the purpose for which some gentlemen appear to speak, (that of depreciating the conduct of the...
347. oldal - Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
492. oldal - That our ancestors, who first settled these colonies, were at the time of their emigration from the mother country, entitled to all the rights, liberties, and immunities of free and natural-born subjects, within the realm of England.