The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...Harper & brothers, 1840 |
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... inclinations which he feels predominant in himself . To learn caution by turning our eyes upon life , and observing the arts by which negligence is sur- prised , timidity overthrown , and credulity amused , requires either great ...
... inclinations which he feels predominant in himself . To learn caution by turning our eyes upon life , and observing the arts by which negligence is sur- prised , timidity overthrown , and credulity amused , requires either great ...
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... inclination to indulge heaviness and sorrow ; nor do I recommend them beyond the degree necessary to maintain in its ... inclinations or differences of employment , moved in various directions through the other parts of the year ; and ...
... inclination to indulge heaviness and sorrow ; nor do I recommend them beyond the degree necessary to maintain in its ... inclinations or differences of employment , moved in various directions through the other parts of the year ; and ...
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... inclinations , and secure themselves from deficiency by doing more than they believe strictly necessary . For of this every man may be certain , that if he were to exchange conditions with his dependant , he should expect more than ...
... inclinations , and secure themselves from deficiency by doing more than they believe strictly necessary . For of this every man may be certain , that if he were to exchange conditions with his dependant , he should expect more than ...
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... inclination to impress upon our memories . For this reason , many arts of instruction have been invented , by which the reluctance against truth may be overcome ; and as physic is given to children in confections , precepts have been ...
... inclination to impress upon our memories . For this reason , many arts of instruction have been invented , by which the reluctance against truth may be overcome ; and as physic is given to children in confections , precepts have been ...
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... inclination to pursue it . This passion is , perhaps , regularly heightened in proportion as the powers of the mind are elevated and enlarged . Lucan therefore introduces Cæsar speaking with dignity suitable to the grandeur of his ...
... inclination to pursue it . This passion is , perhaps , regularly heightened in proportion as the powers of the mind are elevated and enlarged . Lucan therefore introduces Cæsar speaking with dignity suitable to the grandeur of his ...
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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.