The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...G. Kearsley, 1787 - 297 pages |
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... in- cumbent on me to publish them . Such is the origin of the prefent publica- tion , a publication , that as I feel it has be- nefitted myself in the compiling , so I trust it will others in the perufal , and happy fhall I will PREFACE.
... in- cumbent on me to publish them . Such is the origin of the prefent publica- tion , a publication , that as I feel it has be- nefitted myself in the compiling , so I trust it will others in the perufal , and happy fhall I will PREFACE.
Page vii
... fhall I be , if , by any œconomy of mine in the works of fuch a writer , I can contribute to make them more generally known , or remembered , as by it I am fure I fhall perform an essential service to mankind . In respect to the use of ...
... fhall I be , if , by any œconomy of mine in the works of fuch a writer , I can contribute to make them more generally known , or remembered , as by it I am fure I fhall perform an essential service to mankind . In respect to the use of ...
Page xx
... fhall not accufe me ( added he ) of beat- ing down the price of literature : one hates , befides , ever to give that which one has been accustomed to fell ; would not you , Sir , ( returning to Mr. Thrale ) rather give away money than ...
... fhall not accufe me ( added he ) of beat- ing down the price of literature : one hates , befides , ever to give that which one has been accustomed to fell ; would not you , Sir , ( returning to Mr. Thrale ) rather give away money than ...
Page xxxv
... fhall for ever confider it as the greatest honour which could be confer- red on any one , to have been the confidential friend of Dr. Johnson's health ; and to have in fome measure , with Mr. Thrale's affistance , faved from diftrefs at ...
... fhall for ever confider it as the greatest honour which could be confer- red on any one , to have been the confidential friend of Dr. Johnson's health ; and to have in fome measure , with Mr. Thrale's affistance , faved from diftrefs at ...
Page xlv
... fhall be detected in a fraud , the confequence of which will be utter difgrace and expulfion from fociety . What is he to do then ? ” " Then , Sir , fays Johnson , let him go to fome place where he is not known but don't let him go to ...
... fhall be detected in a fraud , the confequence of which will be utter difgrace and expulfion from fociety . What is he to do then ? ” " Then , Sir , fays Johnson , let him go to fome place where he is not known but don't let him go to ...
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Page lxx - Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, and brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
Page 279 - ... remote from each other, and where is the absurdity of allowing that space to represent first Athens and then Sicily which was always known to be neither Sicily nor Athens, but a modern theatre...
Page 273 - It is credited, whenever it moves, as a just picture of a real original; as representing to the auditor what he would himself feel, if he were to do or suffer what is there feigned to be suffered or to be done. The reflection that strikes the heart is not, that the evils before us are real evils, but that they are evils to which we ourselves may be exposed.
Page 196 - 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.
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Page 219 - A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual — they that employ him know not his excellence; they that reject him know not his deficience. By any acute observer who had looked on the transactions of the medical world for half a century a very curious book might be written on the "Fortune of Physicians.
Page 189 - To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.