The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler; and William Pickering, London., 1826 |
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... reason to be apprehensive about me , because I knew that I myself was well : but we might have a mutual anxiety , without the charge of folly ; be- cause each was , in some degree , uncertain as to the con- dition of the other . I ...
... reason to be apprehensive about me , because I knew that I myself was well : but we might have a mutual anxiety , without the charge of folly ; be- cause each was , in some degree , uncertain as to the con- dition of the other . I ...
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... reason for their going abroad ; and if it had not been fixed that he should have been one of the party , he would force them out ; but he would not advise them un- less his advice was asked , lest they might suspect that he recommended ...
... reason for their going abroad ; and if it had not been fixed that he should have been one of the party , he would force them out ; but he would not advise them un- less his advice was asked , lest they might suspect that he recommended ...
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... reason to believe Mr. Murray was very much influenced by what he had heard to - day , in his determination to send his own son to Westminster school . I have acted in the same manner with regard to my own two sons ; having placed the ...
... reason to believe Mr. Murray was very much influenced by what he had heard to - day , in his determination to send his own son to Westminster school . I have acted in the same manner with regard to my own two sons ; having placed the ...
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... reason , " is not altogether with him ; for it is held in the books , that an attack on the reputation even of a dead man , may be punished as a libel , because tending to a breach of the peace . There is , however , I believe , no ...
... reason , " is not altogether with him ; for it is held in the books , that an attack on the reputation even of a dead man , may be punished as a libel , because tending to a breach of the peace . There is , however , I believe , no ...
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... reason , inseparable from their important function . To establish it , therefore , by statute , is , I think , narrowing its foundation , which is the broad and deep basis of common law . Would it not rather weaken the right of ...
... reason , inseparable from their important function . To establish it , therefore , by statute , is , I think , narrowing its foundation , which is the broad and deep basis of common law . Would it not rather weaken the right of ...
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Page 156 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground •which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Page 156 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity...
Page 161 - 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.
Page 150 - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Page 273 - I met him (said he) at Lord Clare's house in the country, and he took no more notice of me than if I had been an ordinary man.
Page 237 - I will not be put to the question. Don't you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman? I will not be baited with what, and why; what is this? what is that? why is a cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy?' The gentleman, who was a good deal out of countenance, said, 'Why, Sir, you are so good, that I venture to trouble you.
Page 196 - 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...
Page 57 - Too, too, too," (under his breath,) which was one of his habitual mutterings. Mr. Arthur Lee could not but be very obnoxious to Johnson, for he was not only a patriot but an American. He was afterwards minister from the United States at the Court of Madrid. " And who is the gentleman in lace 1 " —
Page 56 - I hope you will be good enough to forego it for a day ; as Mr. Dilly is a very worthy man, has frequently had agreeable parties at his house for Dr. Johnson, and will be vexed if the Doctor neglects him today. And then, Madam, be pleased to consider my situation; I carried the message, and I assured Mr.
Page 83 - ALMIGHTY God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.