Doctor Johnson: His Religious Life and His DeathR. Bentley, 1850 - 405 էջ |
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... blessing , a signal benefit on mankind : and while he loved and venerated the Church of England , it was in St. Cyprian's sense of the universal Church , who wrote , " Neither can any man be united to the Church , who is separated from ...
... blessing , a signal benefit on mankind : and while he loved and venerated the Church of England , it was in St. Cyprian's sense of the universal Church , who wrote , " Neither can any man be united to the Church , who is separated from ...
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... blessed by that Comforter which is promised to be with the Church alway , to exclaim in humblest dependence upon Christ , - " O death , where is thy sting ? O grave , where is thy victory ? " The fear of God , and not of man , seems ...
... blessed by that Comforter which is promised to be with the Church alway , to exclaim in humblest dependence upon Christ , - " O death , where is thy sting ? O grave , where is thy victory ? " The fear of God , and not of man , seems ...
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... blessed with strong impressions of religion at a very early time of life : and these impressions certainly biassed the tone of his religious feeling - one of fear rather than of love- during the periods of manhood and old age . He ...
... blessed with strong impressions of religion at a very early time of life : and these impressions certainly biassed the tone of his religious feeling - one of fear rather than of love- during the periods of manhood and old age . He ...
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... blessed is he who can conduct himself without frowardness to the less virtuous . That is a beautiful passage in one of the letters of Pliny the younger , wherein he speaks of Pom- peius Quinctianus in these admirable terms : " How open ...
... blessed is he who can conduct himself without frowardness to the less virtuous . That is a beautiful passage in one of the letters of Pliny the younger , wherein he speaks of Pom- peius Quinctianus in these admirable terms : " How open ...
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... blessing of prayer . When he accompanied Boswell to Harwich , on the journey of the latter to Holland , " We went and looked at the Church , " is Boswell's record ; " and having gone into it , and walked up to the altar , Johnson ...
... blessing of prayer . When he accompanied Boswell to Harwich , on the journey of the latter to Holland , " We went and looked at the Church , " is Boswell's record ; " and having gone into it , and walked up to the altar , Johnson ...
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Էջ 390 - 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.
Էջ 419 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Էջ 265 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Էջ 40 - For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
Էջ 299 - Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy : for by faith ye stand.
Էջ 23 - Rousseau, sir, is a very bad man. I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation, than that of any felon who has gone from the Old Bailey these many years. Yes, I should like to have him work in the plantations.
Էջ 17 - Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago, I desired to atone for this fault ; I went to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood for a considerable time bare-headed in the rain, on the spot where my father's stall used to stand. In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory.
Էջ 21 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Էջ 25 - Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity; and as no man is good but as he wishes the good of others, no man can be good in the highest degree, who wishes not to others the largest measures of the greatest good.
Էջ 275 - I can say and will say, that as a peer of parliament, — as speaker of this right honourable house, — as keeper of the great seal, — as guardian of his majesty's conscience, — as Lord High Chancellor of England, — nay, even in that character alone, in which the noble duke would think it an affront to be considered...