The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...Harper & brothers, 1840 |
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... Beauty . Temptations to Wrong in the Pursuit of Wealth Evils occasioned by Procrastination Description of Squire Bluster Disposition of Mankind to disparage Merit Excessive Parental Severity reproved Uses of Adversity Folly of delaying ...
... Beauty . Temptations to Wrong in the Pursuit of Wealth Evils occasioned by Procrastination Description of Squire Bluster Disposition of Mankind to disparage Merit Excessive Parental Severity reproved Uses of Adversity Folly of delaying ...
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... beauty , destroy the feeble principles of vegeta- ble life , intercept the fruit in the germe , and beat down the flowers unopened to the ground . I am afraid there is little hope of persuading the young and sprightly part of my readers ...
... beauty , destroy the feeble principles of vegeta- ble life , intercept the fruit in the germe , and beat down the flowers unopened to the ground . I am afraid there is little hope of persuading the young and sprightly part of my readers ...
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... Beauty is well known to draw after it the persecutions of impertinence , to incite the artifices of envy , and to raise the flames of unlawful love ; yet , among the ladies whom pru- dence or modesty have made most eminent , who has ...
... Beauty is well known to draw after it the persecutions of impertinence , to incite the artifices of envy , and to raise the flames of unlawful love ; yet , among the ladies whom pru- dence or modesty have made most eminent , who has ...
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... beauty . Peevishness , indeed , would perhaps very little disturb the peace of mankind , were it always the consequence of superfluous delicacy : for it is the privilege only of deep reflection or lively fancy to destroy happiness by ...
... beauty . Peevishness , indeed , would perhaps very little disturb the peace of mankind , were it always the consequence of superfluous delicacy : for it is the privilege only of deep reflection or lively fancy to destroy happiness by ...
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... of few , but to add something , however little , every one may hope ; and of every honest endeavour it is certain that , however unsuccessful , it will be at last rewarded . LOSS OF YOUTHFUL BEAUTY . " Not faster in the 82 ESSAYS , ETC.
... of few , but to add something , however little , every one may hope ; and of every honest endeavour it is certain that , however unsuccessful , it will be at last rewarded . LOSS OF YOUTHFUL BEAUTY . " Not faster in the 82 ESSAYS , ETC.
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Page 36 - ... the rocks of PLEASURE, that they might solace themselves with a short enjoyment of that delicious region, after which they always determined to pursue their course without any other deviation.
Page 52 - What better can we do, than, to the place Repairing where he judged us, prostrate fall Before him reverent, and there confess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg, with tears Watering the ground, and with our sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign Of sorrow unfeign'd and humiliation meek?
Page 302 - He that is carried forward, however swiftly, by a motion equable and easy, perceives not the change of place but by the variation of objects.
Page 34 - ... but though it was impossible to sail against it, or to return to the place that was once passed, yet it was not so violent as to allow no opportunities for dexterity or courage, since, though none could retreat back from danger, yet they might often avoid it by oblique direction.
Page 300 - These are the great occasions which force the mind to take refuge in religion : when we have no help in ourselves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater Power ? and to what hope may we not raise our eyes and hearts, when we consider that the greatest POWER is the BEST?' Surely there is no man who, thus afflicted, does not seek succour in the gospel, which has brought life and immortality to light.
Page 52 - The completion and sum of repentance is a change of life. That sorrow which dictates no caution, that fear which does not quicken our escape, that austerity which fails to 'rectify our affections, are vain and unavailing.
Page 9 - SUSPICION, however necessary it may be to our safe passage through ways beset on all sides by fraud and malice, has been always considered, when it exceeds the common measures, as a token of depravity and corruption ; and a Greek writer of sentences has laid down as a standing maxim, that he who believes not another on his oath, knows himsetf to be perjured.
Page 46 - ... returns again to study with greater alacrity, than when it is glutted with ideal pleasures, and surfeited with intemperance of application. He that will not suffer himself to be discouraged by fancied impossibilities, may sometimes find his abilities invigorated by the necessity of exerting them in short intervals, as the force of a current is increased by the contraction of its channel.
Page 271 - The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness an atrophy.
Page 44 - The proverbial oracles of our parsimonious ancestors have informed us that the fatal waste of fortune is by small expenses, by the profusion of sums too little singly to alarm our caution, and which we never suffer ourselves to consider together. Of the same kind is the prodigality of life : he that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years,. must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavor to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.