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187. oldal
Above all things ( tell no untruth , no not in trifles . ... too much I fear for you : but if
I shall find that this light meal of digestion nourish any thing the weak stomach of
your young capacity , I will , cas s as I find the same grow stronger , feed DR .
Above all things ( tell no untruth , no not in trifles . ... too much I fear for you : but if
I shall find that this light meal of digestion nourish any thing the weak stomach of
your young capacity , I will , cas s as I find the same grow stronger , feed DR .
352. oldal
As * Mr . Hanway seems not very accurate in his state of the time when tea was
first brought into England . He says , that lord Arlington and lord Oflory introduced
it in 1666 , and that it was then admired as a new thing . Waller has a poem ...
As * Mr . Hanway seems not very accurate in his state of the time when tea was
first brought into England . He says , that lord Arlington and lord Oflory introduced
it in 1666 , and that it was then admired as a new thing . Waller has a poem ...
379. oldal
... that an end must in time be put to every thing great as to every thing « little ;
that to life must come its last hour , and to < this system of being , its last day ; the
hour at which s probation ceases , and repentance will be vain , the 6 day in
which ...
... that an end must in time be put to every thing great as to every thing « little ;
that to life must come its last hour , and to < this system of being , its last day ; the
hour at which s probation ceases , and repentance will be vain , the 6 day in
which ...
478. oldal
Pendants seemed to him the most ridiculous of all things : • he condemned
perriwigs mightily , and much more the powder • used in them ; in fine , he
condemned all things as ... He looked with amazement on • every thing that was
new to him .
Pendants seemed to him the most ridiculous of all things : • he condemned
perriwigs mightily , and much more the powder • used in them ; in fine , he
condemned all things as ... He looked with amazement on • every thing that was
new to him .
492. oldal
... as an agent in parliament , has , for himself , neither hope nor fear , neither
kindness nor resentment , but refers every thing to the common interest . These ,
and other thing 492 THE LIFE OF troversy concerning the genuineness of
Phalaris's ...
... as an agent in parliament , has , for himself , neither hope nor fear , neither
kindness nor resentment , but refers every thing to the common interest . These ,
and other thing 492 THE LIFE OF troversy concerning the genuineness of
Phalaris's ...
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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.
Bibliográfiai információk
| Cím | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. |
| Szerző | Sir John Hawkins |
| Kiadó | J. Buckland, 1787 |
| Eredeti forrása | a New York-i Közkönyvtár |
| Digitalizálva: | 2007. júl. 17. |
| Terjedelem | 602 oldal |
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