The Works of Samuel Johnson, 12. kötetL. Hansard & sons, 1810 |
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228. oldal
... lady who had possessed for seven years the empty title of the princess of Prussia . The papers of those times exhibited the conversation of their first interview ; as if the king , who plans campaigns in silence , would not accommodate ...
... lady who had possessed for seven years the empty title of the princess of Prussia . The papers of those times exhibited the conversation of their first interview ; as if the king , who plans campaigns in silence , would not accommodate ...
246. oldal
... ladies . It is the great failing of a strong imagination to catch greedily at wonders . He was misinformed , and was perhaps unwilling to learn by a second enquiry , a trath less splendid and amusing . A contribution was by news ...
... ladies . It is the great failing of a strong imagination to catch greedily at wonders . He was misinformed , and was perhaps unwilling to learn by a second enquiry , a trath less splendid and amusing . A contribution was by news ...
279. oldal
... lady ( says Whitefoot ) of " such symmetrical proportion to her worthy hus- band , both in the graces of her body and mind , " that they seemed to come together by a kind of " natural magnetism . " 66 This marriage could not but draw ...
... lady ( says Whitefoot ) of " such symmetrical proportion to her worthy hus- band , both in the graces of her body and mind , " that they seemed to come together by a kind of " natural magnetism . " 66 This marriage could not but draw ...
293. oldal
... lady , who died in 1685 , he left a son and three daughters . Of the daughters nothing very remarkable is known ; but his son , Edward Browne , requires a particular mention . He was born about the year 1642 ; and , after having passed ...
... lady , who died in 1685 , he left a son and three daughters . Of the daughters nothing very remarkable is known ; but his son , Edward Browne , requires a particular mention . He was born about the year 1642 ; and , after having passed ...
299. oldal
... lady and children , gained by his 66 own industry . 66 " Such was his sagacity and knowledge of all his- tory , ancient and modern , and his observations thereupon so singular , that it hath been said , by " them that knew him best ...
... lady and children , gained by his 66 own industry . 66 " Such was his sagacity and knowledge of all his- tory , ancient and modern , and his observations thereupon so singular , that it hath been said , by " them that knew him best ...
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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.