The Portable Johnson & BoswellViking Press, 1947 - 762 pages Two great and vivid personalitites of English letters revealed in their most charactersitc writings; Johnson; critical essays, letters, poems: Boswell; Life of Johnson, Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, and the Dialogue with Rousseau, etc. |
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Page 584
... reason's spite , One truth is clear , whatever is , is right : but having afterwards discovered , or been shown , that the “ truth ” which subsisted “ in spite of reason " could not be very " clear , " he substituted : And spite of ...
... reason's spite , One truth is clear , whatever is , is right : but having afterwards discovered , or been shown , that the “ truth ” which subsisted “ in spite of reason " could not be very " clear , " he substituted : And spite of ...
Page 657
... reason , and in confession , that the reason cannot be found . This is all that has been produced by the revival of Chrysip- pus's untractableness of matter , and the Arabian scale of existence . A system has been raised , which is so ...
... reason , and in confession , that the reason cannot be found . This is all that has been produced by the revival of Chrysip- pus's untractableness of matter , and the Arabian scale of existence . A system has been raised , which is so ...
Page 658
... reason , but from prejudice . Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long pre- served , without considering that time has sometimes co- operated with chance ; all perhaps are more willing to honour past than present ...
... reason , but from prejudice . Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long pre- served , without considering that time has sometimes co- operated with chance ; all perhaps are more willing to honour past than present ...
Contents
Editors Introduction | 1 |
From The Life of Samuel Johnson | 41 |
From The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides | 376 |
Copyright | |
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