The Works of Samuel Johnson, 12. kötetL. Hansard & sons, 1810 |
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26. oldal
... say that we were ignorant of the principles of things , was not only to enlist among the Sceptics , but sink into Atheism itself . So far can prejudice darken the understanding , as to make it consider precarious systems as the chief ...
... say that we were ignorant of the principles of things , was not only to enlist among the Sceptics , but sink into Atheism itself . So far can prejudice darken the understanding , as to make it consider precarious systems as the chief ...
30. oldal
... says Boerhaave ; " let them take bread and wine , the food that forms the blood of man , and by assimilation contributes to the growth of the body : let them try all their arts , they shall not be able from these materials to produce a ...
... says Boerhaave ; " let them take bread and wine , the food that forms the blood of man , and by assimilation contributes to the growth of the body : let them try all their arts , they shall not be able from these materials to produce a ...
42. oldal
... says Clarendon , " without any appear- " ance of ambition to be a greater man than he was , " but inveighed with great freedom against the li- " cence of the times , and power of the court . " In 1640 he was chosen burgess for ...
... says Clarendon , " without any appear- " ance of ambition to be a greater man than he was , " but inveighed with great freedom against the li- " cence of the times , and power of the court . " In 1640 he was chosen burgess for ...
52. oldal
... say he was ignorant of the strength of the Dutch fleet , is to impute to him a very criminal degree of negli- gence ; and , at least , it must be confessed that , from the time he saw them , he could not but know that they were too ...
... say he was ignorant of the strength of the Dutch fleet , is to impute to him a very criminal degree of negli- gence ; and , at least , it must be confessed that , from the time he saw them , he could not but know that they were too ...
54. oldal
... says Blake , " the business of a seaman to " mind state affairs , but to hinder foreigners from 66 fooling us . " This was the principle from which he never deviated , and which he always endea- voured to inculcate in the fleet , as the ...
... says Blake , " the business of a seaman to " mind state affairs , but to hinder foreigners from 66 fooling us . " This was the principle from which he never deviated , and which he always endea- voured to inculcate in the fleet , as the ...
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423. oldal - At night they set fire to the Fleet, and to the King's Bench, and I know not how many other places ; and one might see the glare of conflagration fill the sky from many parts. The sight was dreadful. Some people were threatened : Mr. Strahan advised me to take care of myself. — Such a time of terrour you have been happy in not seeing.
276. oldal - The reciprocal civility. of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.
332. oldal - I cannot forbear to mention, that neither reason nor revelation denies you to hope, that you may increase her happiness by obeying her precepts ; and that she may, in her present state, look with pleasure upon every act of virtue to which her instructions or example have contributed.
368. oldal - The return of my birth-day, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
181. oldal - That the strength of his understanding, the accuracy of his discernment, and the ardour of his Curiosity, might have been remarked from his infancy, by a diligent observer, there is no reason to doubt. For, there is no instance of any man, whose history has been minutely related, that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour.
39. oldal - So far was this man from being made impious by philosophy, or vain by knowledge or by virtue, that he ascribed all his abilities to the bounty, and all his goodness to the grace of God. May his example extend its influence to his admirers and followers' May those who study his writings imitate his life ! and those who endeavour after his knowledge aspire likewise to his piety...
438. oldal - When Queen Mary took the resolution of sheltering herself in England, the Archbishop of St. Andrew's, attempting to dissuade her, attended on her journey; and when they came to the irremeable...
445. oldal - ALMIGHTY God, merciful Father, in whose hands are life and death, sanctify unto me the sorrow which I now feel. Forgive me whatever I have done unkindly to my mother, and whatever I have omitted to do kindly. Make me to remember her good precepts and good example, and to reform my life according to thy holy word, that I may lose no more opportunities of good.
283. 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...
276. 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.