 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1826 - 250 Seiten
...about composing a prayer in Latin, at once to deprecate God's mercy, to satisfy himself that his mental powers remained unimpaired, and to keep them in exercise,...that they might not perish by permitted stagnation. This was after we paited; but he wrote me an account of it, and I intend to publish that letter, with... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 586 Seiten
...about composing a prayer in Latin, at once to deprecate God's mercy, to satisfy himself that his mental powers remained unimpaired, and to keep them in exercise,...perish by permitted stagnation. When one day he had at Streatham taken tincture of antimony instead of emetic wine, for a vomit, he was himself the person... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 690 Seiten
...about composing a prayer in Latin, at once to deprecate God's mercy, to satisfy himself that his mental powers remained unimpaired, and to keep them in exercise,...perish by permitted stagnation. When one day he had at Streatham taken tincture of antimony instead of emetic wine, for a vomit, he was himself the person... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 Seiten
...revived the old prayer in Latin, at once to deprecate God's mercy, to satisfy himself that his mental powers remained unimpaired, and to keep them in exercise,...he had been prescribing for an indifferent person. — PI0zzI. (1) [Seean^, p. 65.] comedy, by exhibiting living characters, had resolved to imitate Johnson... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 374 Seiten
...revived the old prayer in Latin, at once to deprecate God's mercy, to satisfy himself that his mental powers remained unimpaired, and to keep them in exercise,...he had been prescribing for an indifferent person. — PIOZZI. (1) [SeeantS, p. 65.] comedy, by exhibiting living characters, had resolved to imitate... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 Seiten
...about composing a prayer in Latin, at once to deprecate God's mercy, to satisfy himself that his mental powers remained unimpaired, and to keep them in exercise,...wine, for a vomit, he was himself the person to direct us what to do for him, and managed with as much coolness and deliberation, as if he had been prescribing... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 Seiten
...about composing a prayer in Latin, at once to deprecate God's mercy, to satisfy himself that his mental powers remained unimpaired, and to keep them in exercise, that they might not perish by permitted stagnation.1 When one day he had at my house taken tincture of antimony instead of emetic wine, for... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 544 Seiten
...about composing a prayer in Latin, at once to deprecate God's mercy, to satisfy himself that his mental powers remained unimpaired, and to keep them in exercise,...wine, for a vomit, he was himself the person to direct us what to do for him, and managed with as much coolness and deliberation, as if he had been prescribing... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 546 Seiten
...about composing a prayer in Latin, at once to deprecate God's mercy, to satisfy himself that his mental powers remained unimpaired, and to keep them in exercise,...wine, for a vomit, he was himself the person to direct us what to do for him, and managed with as much coolness and deliberation, as if he had been prescribing... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 Seiten
...about composing a prayer in Latin, at once to deprecate God's mercy, to satisfy himself that his mental powers remained unimpaired, and to keep them in exercise,...perish by permitted stagnation. When one day he had at Streatham taken tincture of antimony instead of emetic wine, for a vomit, he was himself the person... | |
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... and even then he kept all his wits about him, to express the most humble and pathetic petitions to the Almighty : and when the first paralytic stroke took his speech from him, he instantly set about composing a prayer in Latin, at once to deprecate... 
