The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: 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; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 3J. Richardson and Company, 1821 |
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... reasons for which you are inclined to visit London are , I think , not of sufficient strength to answer the objections ... reason is so serious , that I am unwill- ing to oppose it . Yet you must remember , that your image of worshipping ...
... reasons for which you are inclined to visit London are , I think , not of sufficient strength to answer the objections ... reason is so serious , that I am unwill- ing to oppose it . Yet you must remember , that your image of worshipping ...
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... Reason . We may take Fancy for a companion , but must follow Reason as our guide . We may allow Fancy to sug- gest certain ideas in certain places ; but Reason must always be heard , when she tells us , that those ideas and those places ...
... Reason . We may take Fancy for a companion , but must follow Reason as our guide . We may allow Fancy to sug- gest certain ideas in certain places ; but Reason must always be heard , when she tells us , that those ideas and those places ...
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... , " If my de- lay has given any reason for supposing that I have not a very deep sense of the honour done me by asking my judgement , I am very sorry . " " Of poor dear Dr. Goldsmith there is little to 6 [ 1774 . THE LIFE OF.
... , " If my de- lay has given any reason for supposing that I have not a very deep sense of the honour done me by asking my judgement , I am very sorry . " " Of poor dear Dr. Goldsmith there is little to 6 [ 1774 . THE LIFE OF.
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... reason to reproach me that I have left your last letter so long unanswered , but I had nothing particular to say . Chambers , you find , is gone far , and poor Goldsmith is gone much further . He died of a fever , exasperated , as I ...
... reason to reproach me that I have left your last letter so long unanswered , but I had nothing particular to say . Chambers , you find , is gone far , and poor Goldsmith is gone much further . He died of a fever , exasperated , as I ...
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... reason . It is vain to try to write thus with- out materials . The fact seems to be against you ; at least I cannot know nor say any thing to the contrary . I am glad that you like the book so well . I hear no more of Macpherson . I ...
... reason . It is vain to try to write thus with- out materials . The fact seems to be against you ; at least I cannot know nor say any thing to the contrary . I am glad that you like the book so well . I hear no more of Macpherson . I ...
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Page 50 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Page 87 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Page 258 - And if Jack Wilkes should be there, what is that to me, Sir? My dear friend, let us have no more of this. I am sorry to be angry with you; but really it is treating me strangely to talk to me as if I could not meet any company whatever, occasionally.
Page 68 - Yes, Sir, when a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly.' The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write : a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Page 173 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest: welcome at an inn.
Page 181 - The vastness and the contrivance of some of the machinery would have "matched his mighty mind." I shall never forget Mr. Boulton's expression to me, " I sell here, sir, what all the world desires to have — POWER.
Page 264 - 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.
Page 354 - Life, he must represent- it really as it was :" and when I objected to the danger of telling that Parnell drank to excess, he said, that " it would produce an instructive caution to avoid drinking, when it was seen, that even the learning and genius of Parnell could be debased by it.
Page 185 - we are a city of philosophers ; we work with our heads, and make the boobies of Birmingham work for us with their hands.
Page 307 - ... would amplify knowledge with new views and new objects. Set about it therefore, if you can: do what you can easily do without anxious exactness. Lay the foundation, and leave the superstructure to posterity. I am, Sir, 'Your most humble servant, 'SAM. JOHNSON.