The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.P.F. Collier and Son, 1901 |
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... Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . JOSEPH TORREY , JR . , Ph.D. , Instructor in Chemistry in Harvard University . RAY STANNARD BAKER , A.B. , author of " The New Prosperity , " etc .; Associate Editor of McClure's Magazine . BIOGRAPHY ...
... Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . JOSEPH TORREY , JR . , Ph.D. , Instructor in Chemistry in Harvard University . RAY STANNARD BAKER , A.B. , author of " The New Prosperity , " etc .; Associate Editor of McClure's Magazine . BIOGRAPHY ...
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... Natural History - Story of Prendergast - Expulsion of Methodists from Oxford- " In Vino Veritas " -Education of the People - Sense of Touch in the Blind - Theory of Sounds - Taste in the Arts - Francis Osborne's Works - Country Gen ...
... Natural History - Story of Prendergast - Expulsion of Methodists from Oxford- " In Vino Veritas " -Education of the People - Sense of Touch in the Blind - Theory of Sounds - Taste in the Arts - Francis Osborne's Works - Country Gen ...
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... Nature - Male Succession - Influence of the Seasons on the Mind- Projected Visit to the Hebrides , 144 CHAPTER IX . 1773 . Johnson sets out on his Visit to the Hebrides - Sketch of his Character , religious , moral , political , and ...
... Nature - Male Succession - Influence of the Seasons on the Mind- Projected Visit to the Hebrides , 144 CHAPTER IX . 1773 . Johnson sets out on his Visit to the Hebrides - Sketch of his Character , religious , moral , political , and ...
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... nature a general and every wise man has himself to If you wish to make people stare , calculate how long the habeas corpus might exist , if the freedom of the press were destroyed , and the duration of parliaments unlimited ? -C . 1 His ...
... nature a general and every wise man has himself to If you wish to make people stare , calculate how long the habeas corpus might exist , if the freedom of the press were destroyed , and the duration of parliaments unlimited ? -C . 1 His ...
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... nature wise , not learned by much art ; Some knowledge on her side will all my life More scope of conversation impart ; Besides , her inborne virtue fortifie ; They are most firmly good , who best know why . ” When I censured a ...
... nature wise , not learned by much art ; Some knowledge on her side will all my life More scope of conversation impart ; Besides , her inborne virtue fortifie ; They are most firmly good , who best know why . ” When I censured a ...
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416. oldal - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among...
138. oldal - I know of no comedy for many years that has so much exhilarated an audience, that has answered so much the great end of comedy — making an audience merry.
362. oldal - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
103. oldal - I collated such copies as I could procure, and wished for more, but have not found the collectors of these rarities very communicative.
160. oldal - ... the assistance of one of the ablest lawyers in the kingdom ;' and he will read it to him (laughing all the time). He believes he has made this will ; but he did not make it: you, Chambers, made it for him. I trust you have had more conscience than to make him say, ' being of sound understanding ;' ha, ha, ha ! I hope he has left me a legacy. I'd have his will turned into verse, like a ballad.
262. oldal - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned'.
96. 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. Mickle, the translator of The Lusiad, and I went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards.
48. oldal - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
437. oldal - Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature, as not to know that a man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice?
89. oldal - But, Sir, in the British Constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the Crown ". JoHNSON : " Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig. — Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the Crown ? The Crown has not power enough.