The Works of Samuel Johnson, 12. kötetNichols, 1816 |
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... the French Miscellanies , containing a few dates and a general cha- racter ; but I have been led beyond my intention , I hope , by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure . In this minute kind of History , the suc- cession A 2.
... the French Miscellanies , containing a few dates and a general cha- racter ; but I have been led beyond my intention , I hope , by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure . In this minute kind of History , the suc- cession A 2.
95. oldal
... hope ; but when they came to look more nearly into their situation , they were unable to conceive upon what it was founded . To pass by land was impos- sible , as the way lay over high mountains , through thick woods and deep rivers ...
... hope ; but when they came to look more nearly into their situation , they were unable to conceive upon what it was founded . To pass by land was impos- sible , as the way lay over high mountains , through thick woods and deep rivers ...
118. oldal
... hope of success , or to what actions worthy of death he could have proceeded without accomplices , for none are mentioned , is equally dif ficult to imagine . Nor , on the other hand , though the obscurity of the account , and the ...
... hope of success , or to what actions worthy of death he could have proceeded without accomplices , for none are mentioned , is equally dif ficult to imagine . Nor , on the other hand , though the obscurity of the account , and the ...
142. oldal
... hope of escaping . Here even the intrepidity of Drake was shaken , and his dexterity baffled ; but his piety , however , remained still the same , and what he could not now promise himself from his own ability , he hoped from the ...
... hope of escaping . Here even the intrepidity of Drake was shaken , and his dexterity baffled ; but his piety , however , remained still the same , and what he could not now promise himself from his own ability , he hoped from the ...
148. oldal
... hope , for the honour of so great a man , that it is without foundation ; and that he , whom no series of success could ever betray to vanity or negligence , could have supported a change of fortune without impatience or dejec- tion ...
... hope , for the honour of so great a man , that it is without foundation ; and that he , whom no series of success could ever betray to vanity or negligence , could have supported a change of fortune without impatience or dejec- tion ...
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229. oldal - There are many things delivered rhetorically, many expressions therein merely tropical, and as they best illustrate my intention ; and therefore also there are many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense, and not to be called unto the rigid test of reason.
229. oldal - The reciprocal civility. of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.
327. oldal - I sat for my picture, and walked a considerable way with little inconvenience. In the afternoon and evening I felt myself light and easy, and began to plan schemes of life. Thus I went to bed, and in a short time waked and sat up, as has...
337. oldal - ... available to the confirmation of my faith, the establishment of my hope, and the enlargement of my charity ; and make the death of thy Son JESUS CHRIST effectual to my redemption. Have mercy upon me, and pardon the multitude of my offences. Bless my friends ; have mercy upon all men. Support me, by thy Holy Spirit, in the days of weakness, and at the hour of death ; and receive me, at my death, to everlasting happiness, for the sake of JESUS CHRIST. Amen.
229. oldal - ... and had lately declared, that 'the whole world was made for man, but only the twelfth part of man for woman;' and, that 'man is the whole world, but woman only the rib or crooked part of man.
55. oldal - He was the first that infused that proportion of courage into the seamen, by making them see by experience, what mighty things they could do, if they were resolved ; and taught them to fight in fire as well as upon water : and though he hath been very well imitated and followed, he was the first that gave the example of that kind of naval courage », and bold and resolute achievements.
337. oldal - Almighty and most merciful Father, I am now, as to human eyes it seems, about to commemorate, for the last time, the death of thy son Jesus Christ, our Saviour and Redeemer. Grant, O Lord, that my whole hope and confidence may be in his merits and in thy mercy: forgive and accept my late conversion; enforce and accept my imperfect repentance...
229. oldal - It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progrcssional, and otherwise made in vain...
288. oldal - The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
327. oldal - I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would spare my understanding. This prayer, that I might try the integrity of my faculties, I made in Latin verse. The lines were not very good, but I knew them not to be very good : I made them easily, and concluded myself to be unimpaired in my faculties.