The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone, 2. kötet1821 |
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8. oldal
... reason ; but in History we have undoubted facts , against which , in reasoning à priori , we have more argu- ments than we have for them ; but then , testimony has great weight , and casts the balance . I would recommend to every man ...
... reason ; but in History we have undoubted facts , against which , in reasoning à priori , we have more argu- ments than we have for them ; but then , testimony has great weight , and casts the balance . I would recommend to every man ...
31. oldal
... reason , that he could do wrong . " JOHNSON . " Sir , you are to consider , that in our constitution , according to its true principles , the King is the head , he is supreme ; he is above every thing , and there is no power by which he ...
... reason , that he could do wrong . " JOHNSON . " Sir , you are to consider , that in our constitution , according to its true principles , the King is the head , he is supreme ; he is above every thing , and there is no power by which he ...
34. oldal
... reason of this . Why , sir , I am a man of the world . I live in the world , and I take , in some degree , the colour of the world as it moves along . Your father is a Judge in a remote part of the island , and all his notions are taken ...
... reason of this . Why , sir , I am a man of the world . I live in the world , and I take , in some degree , the colour of the world as it moves along . Your father is a Judge in a remote part of the island , and all his notions are taken ...
37. oldal
... reason strengthened . Indeed I heard him once say , " that after the death of a violent Whig , with whom he used to contend with great eagerness , he felt his Toryism much abated . " suppose he meant Mr. Walmsley . I Yet there is no ...
... reason strengthened . Indeed I heard him once say , " that after the death of a violent Whig , with whom he used to contend with great eagerness , he felt his Toryism much abated . " suppose he meant Mr. Walmsley . I Yet there is no ...
42. oldal
... reason to appre- hend that he will tell many lies for himself ? " I am , however , satisfied that every servant , of any degree of intelligence , understands saying his master is not at home , not at all as the affirmation of a fact ...
... reason to appre- hend that he will tell many lies for himself ? " I am , however , satisfied that every servant , of any degree of intelligence , understands saying his master is not at home , not at all as the affirmation of a fact ...
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3. oldal - Mr. Davies mentioned my name, and respectfully introduced me to him. I was much agitated; and recollecting his prejudice against the Scotch, of which I had heard much, I said to Davies, " Don't tell where I come from." —" From Scotland," cried Davies, roguishly. " Mr. Johnson," said I, " I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it.
37. oldal - I cannot now curse (smiling) the house of Hanover ; nor would it be decent for me to drink king James's health in the wine that king George gives me money to pay for. But, sir, I think that the pleasure of cursing the house of Hanover, and drinking king James's health, are amply overbalanced by three hundred pounds a year.
334. oldal - Sir, that is because at first she has full time and makes her nest deliberately. In the case you mention she is pressed to lay, and must therefore make her nest quickly, and consequently it will be slight." GOLDSMITH. " The nidification of birds is what is least known in natural history, though one of the most curious things in it.
104. oldal - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime ; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain : Teach him, that states of native strength...
250. oldal - Chesterfield told me that the word great should be pronounced so as to rhyme to state; and Sir William Yonge sent me word that it should be pronounced so as to rhyme to seat, and that none but an Irishman would pronounce it grait. Now here were two men of the highest rank, the one, the best speaker in the House of Lords, the other, the best speaker in the House of Commons, differing entirely.
138. oldal - During the whole of this interview, Johnson talked to his majesty with profound respect, but still in his firm manly manner, with a sonorous voice, and never in that subdued tone which is commonly used at the levee and in the drawing-room.
269. oldal - Edgeware road, and had carried down his books in two returned post-chaises. He said, he believed the farmer's family thought him an odd character, similar to that in which the Spectator appeared to his landlady and her children : he was The Gentleman. Mr.
301. oldal - I told him that Goldsmith had said to me a few days before, " As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest.
74. oldal - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
84. oldal - A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year; and perceive that incidents and intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression.