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... say more than I mean , in jest , " and people are apt to think me serious . " * The exercise of that privilege , which is enjoyed by every man in society , has not been allowed to him . His fame has given importance even to trifles ...
... say more than I mean , in jest , " and people are apt to think me serious . " * The exercise of that privilege , which is enjoyed by every man in society , has not been allowed to him . His fame has given importance even to trifles ...
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... says in one of his letters , have acted with the diligence of spies upon his conduct . To some of them the following lines , in Mallet's Poem , on verbal criticism , are not inapplicable : " Such that grave bird in Northern seas is ...
... says in one of his letters , have acted with the diligence of spies upon his conduct . To some of them the following lines , in Mallet's Poem , on verbal criticism , are not inapplicable : " Such that grave bird in Northern seas is ...
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... says , that " his abilities , instead of furnishing convi- " vial merriment to the voluptuous and disso- " lute ... say , that he was never thrown or con- quered . Michael , the father , died December 1731 , at the age of seventy - six ...
... says , that " his abilities , instead of furnishing convi- " vial merriment to the voluptuous and disso- " lute ... say , that he was never thrown or con- quered . Michael , the father , died December 1731 , at the age of seventy - six ...
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... says Ford , " some " general principles of every science : he who can talk only on one subject , or act only in " one department , is seldom wanted , and per- haps , never wished for ; while the man of ge- " neral knowledge can often ...
... says Ford , " some " general principles of every science : he who can talk only on one subject , or act only in " one department , is seldom wanted , and per- haps , never wished for ; while the man of ge- " neral knowledge can often ...
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... says Mrs. Piozzi , " the features of peculiarity , which mark " a character to all succeeding generations , are ... say that he could bind a book . At the end of two years , being then about nineteen , he went to assist the studies of a ...
... says Mrs. Piozzi , " the features of peculiarity , which mark " a character to all succeeding generations , are ... say that he could bind a book . At the end of two years , being then about nineteen , he went to assist the studies of a ...
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Page 55 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Page 54 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Page 54 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
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Page 55 - Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
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Page 157 - Think nothing gain'd," he cries, "till nought remain, On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards fly, And all be mine beneath the polar sky.
Page 32 - Johnson: one, in particular, praised his impartiality ; observing, that he dealt out reason and eloquence, with an equal hand to both parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it.
Page 55 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 50 - Why, Sir, it is a very harmless doctrine. They are of opinion that the generality of mankind are neither so obstinately wicked as to deserve everlasting punishment, nor so good as to merit being admitted into the society of blessed spirits; and therefore that God is graciously pleased to allow of a middle state, where they may be purified by certain degrees of suffering. You see, Sir, there is nothing unreasonable in this.