The Life of Samuel Johnson: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition Never Before Published ...T. Cadell, 1822 |
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... concerning the state of another at a distance from him , knows to a certainty that the fears of that person concerning his health are imaginary and delusive ; and hence has a rational ground for supposing that his own appre- hensions ...
... concerning the state of another at a distance from him , knows to a certainty that the fears of that person concerning his health are imaginary and delusive ; and hence has a rational ground for supposing that his own appre- hensions ...
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... concerning the Douglas Estate , in which I was one of the counsel , was to come on . I brought with me Mr. Murray , Solicitor - General of Scotland , now one of the Judges of the Court of Session , with the title of Lord Henderland . I ...
... concerning the Douglas Estate , in which I was one of the counsel , was to come on . I brought with me Mr. Murray , Solicitor - General of Scotland , now one of the Judges of the Court of Session , with the title of Lord Henderland . I ...
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... concerning the characters of the dead . Damages will be given to a man who is calumniated in his life - time , because he may be hurt in his worldly in- terest , or at least hurt in his mind : but the law does not regard that uneasiness ...
... concerning the characters of the dead . Damages will be given to a man who is calumniated in his life - time , because he may be hurt in his worldly in- terest , or at least hurt in his mind : but the law does not regard that uneasiness ...
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... concerning moral truth , human passions are generally mixed , and therefore it must be ever liable to assault and misrepresentation . " On Friday , April 5 , being Good Friday , after hav- ing attended the morning service at St ...
... concerning moral truth , human passions are generally mixed , and therefore it must be ever liable to assault and misrepresentation . " On Friday , April 5 , being Good Friday , after hav- ing attended the morning service at St ...
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... concerning those dramatick poets with whom he had been chiefly conversant . He also engaged to write several of the Lives ; which , ( as we are told , ) he , accordingly , performed . He was farther useful in striking out the ...
... concerning those dramatick poets with whom he had been chiefly conversant . He also engaged to write several of the Lives ; which , ( as we are told , ) he , accordingly , performed . He was farther useful in striking out the ...
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66 DEAR SIR acquaintance admirable affectionate afterwards appeared Ashbourne asked Auchinleck authour Beauclerk believe Bishop booksellers character Cibber consider conversation Court of Session death Dilly dined dinner Dodd drink Edinburgh edition English favour Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope House of Lords Hugh Blair humble servant humour JAMES BOSWELL John kindness lady Langton late learned letter liberty Lichfield lived London Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Monboddo Lordship Lucy Porter Madam MALONE mentioned mind never obliged observed once opinion Percy perhaps pleased pleasure poem Poets Pope praise publick recollect respect Reverend SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotland sermons shewed Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talked Taylor tell thing thought Thrale tion told travels truth Whig Wilkes wine wish word write wrote
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Seite 180 - Why, Sir, you \ find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. \ No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Seite 304 - Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, Sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
Seite 69 - You will allow his Apology to be well done." JOHNSON: "Very well done, to be sure, Sir. That book is a striking proof of the justice of Pope's remark: "Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand.
Seite 221 - To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew...
Seite 412 - If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
Seite 39 - Fielding's Amelia was the most pleasing heroine of all the romances, (he said,) but that vile broken nose never cured, ruined the sale of perhaps the only book, which being printed off [published] betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night.
Seite 356 - Are these thy views? proceed, illustrious youth, And virtue guard thee to the throne of Truth! Yet should thy soul indulge the...
Seite 347 - He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all.
Seite 256 - His nature is too noble for the world : He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for his power to thunder. His heart's his mouth : What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent ; And, being angry, does forget that ever He heard the name of death.
Seite 30 - The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the books through ; but lay hold of a topick, and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly Reviewers are duller men, and are glad to read the books through.