The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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Page 153
... question . " JOHNSON . " No , sir , it does not solve the question . It does not follow , that what a man would do , is therefore right . " I said , I wished to have it settled , whether duelling was contrary to the laws of christianity ...
... question . " JOHNSON . " No , sir , it does not solve the question . It does not follow , that what a man would do , is therefore right . " I said , I wished to have it settled , whether duelling was contrary to the laws of christianity ...
Page 154
... question was started , how far people who disagree in a capital point can live in friendship together . Johnson said they might . Goldsmith said they could not , as they had not the " idem velle atque idem nolle , ” — the same likings ...
... question was started , how far people who disagree in a capital point can live in friendship together . Johnson said they might . Goldsmith said they could not , as they had not the " idem velle atque idem nolle , ” — the same likings ...
Page 159
... question is , not what is now con- venient , but what is generally right . If the people of Campbelltown be distressed by the restoration of the re- spondent , they are distressed only by their own fault ; by turbulent passions and ...
... question is , not what is now con- venient , but what is generally right . If the people of Campbelltown be distressed by the restoration of the re- spondent , they are distressed only by their own fault ; by turbulent passions and ...
Page 167
... question purely of Scotch law . It was held of old , and continued for a long period , to be an established principle in that law , that whoever intermeddled with the effects of a person deceased , without the interposition of legal au ...
... question purely of Scotch law . It was held of old , and continued for a long period , to be an established principle in that law , that whoever intermeddled with the effects of a person deceased , without the interposition of legal au ...
Page 173
... question . His intellectual powers appeared with peculiar lustre , when tried against those of a writer of such fame as lord Kames , and that too in his lordship's own department . This masterly argument , after being prefaced and con ...
... question . His intellectual powers appeared with peculiar lustre , when tried against those of a writer of such fame as lord Kames , and that too in his lordship's own department . This masterly argument , after being prefaced and con ...
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