The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished. In Three VolumesHenry Baldwin, 1793 |
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Page 78
... true in those kinds of knowledge which produce wisdom , power , and force , fo as to enable one man to have the government of others ; but that a man is not in any degree lessened by others knowing as well as he what 1773 . what ends in ...
... true in those kinds of knowledge which produce wisdom , power , and force , fo as to enable one man to have the government of others ; but that a man is not in any degree lessened by others knowing as well as he what 1773 . what ends in ...
Page 85
... True . When he whom every body else flatters , flatters me , I then am truely happy . " MRS . THRALE . " The fentiment is in Congreve , 1 think . " JOHNSON . JOHNSON . Yes , Madam , in * The Way of the World : " 1773 . Etat . 64 . ' If ...
... True . When he whom every body else flatters , flatters me , I then am truely happy . " MRS . THRALE . " The fentiment is in Congreve , 1 think . " JOHNSON . JOHNSON . Yes , Madam , in * The Way of the World : " 1773 . Etat . 64 . ' If ...
Page 93
... true ; but a speech on the stage , let it flatter ever fo extravagantly , is formular . It has always been formular to flatter Kings and Queens ; fo much fo , that even in our church - service we have our most religious King , ' used ...
... true ; but a speech on the stage , let it flatter ever fo extravagantly , is formular . It has always been formular to flatter Kings and Queens ; fo much fo , that even in our church - service we have our most religious King , ' used ...
Page 95
... true , he always gets the better when he argues alone ; meaning , that he is mafter of a fubject in his study , and can write well upon it ; but when he comes into company , grows confufed , and unable to talk . Take him as a poet , his ...
... true , he always gets the better when he argues alone ; meaning , that he is mafter of a fubject in his study , and can write well upon it ; but when he comes into company , grows confufed , and unable to talk . Take him as a poet , his ...
Page 103
... any church is now in the hands of the heirs of the builders ; and that the present perfons have entered fubfequently upon the pretended rights by a thousand accidental H 4 and 1773 . Etat . 64 . true . and unknown DR . JOHNSON . 153.
... any church is now in the hands of the heirs of the builders ; and that the present perfons have entered fubfequently upon the pretended rights by a thousand accidental H 4 and 1773 . Etat . 64 . true . and unknown DR . JOHNSON . 153.
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