The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: And the Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 5G. Routledge and Sons, 1885 |
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... Lichfield got drunk every night , and were not the worse thought of . Ale was cheap , so you pressed strongly . When a man must bring a bottle of wine , he is not in such hastc . Smoking has gone out . To be sure , it is a shocking ...
... Lichfield got drunk every night , and were not the worse thought of . Ale was cheap , so you pressed strongly . When a man must bring a bottle of wine , he is not in such hastc . Smoking has gone out . To be sure , it is a shocking ...
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... Lichfield . The Doctor recollected being at the lecture , and he was surprised to find here somebody who knew him . Mr. Fraser sent a servant to conduct us by a short passage into the high road . I observed to Dr. Johnson that I had a ...
... Lichfield . The Doctor recollected being at the lecture , and he was surprised to find here somebody who knew him . Mr. Fraser sent a servant to conduct us by a short passage into the high road . I observed to Dr. Johnson that I had a ...
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... Lichfield , after having been in London , my mother asked me whether I was one of those who gave the wall , or those who took it . Now , it is fixed that every man keeps to the right ; or , if one is taking the wall , another yields it ...
... Lichfield , after having been in London , my mother asked me whether I was one of those who gave the wall , or those who took it . Now , it is fixed that every man keeps to the right ; or , if one is taking the wall , another yields it ...
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... Lichfield , whose character he has drawn so well in his Life of Edmund Smith . Mr. Nairne came in , and he and I accompanied Dr. Johnson to Edinburgh Castle , which he owned was " a great place . " But I must mention , as a striking ...
... Lichfield , whose character he has drawn so well in his Life of Edmund Smith . Mr. Nairne came in , and he and I accompanied Dr. Johnson to Edinburgh Castle , which he owned was " a great place . " But I must mention , as a striking ...
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... Lichfield , and taught by " Tom Brown , who published a spelling book , and dedicated it to the Uni- verse His power of memory 1717-19 8-10 At Lichfield School under Mr. Hawkins , the under 1719 IO master . Plan of his early schoolwork ...
... Lichfield , and taught by " Tom Brown , who published a spelling book , and dedicated it to the Uni- verse His power of memory 1717-19 8-10 At Lichfield School under Mr. Hawkins , the under 1719 IO master . Plan of his early schoolwork ...
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Page 15 - Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.
Page 357 - O ! my friend, the approach of death is very dreadful. I am afraid to think on that which I know I cannot avoid. It is vain to look round and round for that help which cannot be had. Yet we hope and hope, and fancy that he who has lived to-day may live tomorrow.
Page 86 - The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up...
Page 16 - Burke, sir, is such a man, that if you met him for the first time in the street where you were stopped by a drove of oxen, and you and he stepped aside to take shelter but for five minutes, he'd talk to you in such a manner, that, when you parted, you would say, this is an extraordinary man.
Page 20 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Page 147 - The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth ; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation...
Page 204 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Page 30 - He cannot deny himself the vanity of finishing with the encomium of Dr. Johnson, whose friendly partiality to the companion of his tour represents him as one "whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the inconveniences of travel in countries less hospitable than we have passed.
Page 12 - a lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.
Page 256 - 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...