Doctor Johnson: his religious life and his death...Richard Bentley, 1850 - 539 էջ |
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... hear ancient times praised at the expense of modern times . There is now a great deal more learning in the world than there was formerly ; for it is universally diffused . You have , perhaps , no man who knows so much Greek and Latin as ...
... hear ancient times praised at the expense of modern times . There is now a great deal more learning in the world than there was formerly ; for it is universally diffused . You have , perhaps , no man who knows so much Greek and Latin as ...
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... hear no more of him . That is the fellow who made the index to my Ramblers , and set down the name of Milton thus - Milton , Mr. John . " And though ignorance more than insult perpetrated this mistake , yet Johnson's lines will occur to ...
... hear no more of him . That is the fellow who made the index to my Ramblers , and set down the name of Milton thus - Milton , Mr. John . " And though ignorance more than insult perpetrated this mistake , yet Johnson's lines will occur to ...
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... hear , the current application of epithets , the general turn of language , " * & c . , and towards whom any labours adverse to morality , and hence to happiness and tranquillity of mind , are positive cruelty . * Paley on the Moral ...
... hear , the current application of epithets , the general turn of language , " * & c . , and towards whom any labours adverse to morality , and hence to happiness and tranquillity of mind , are positive cruelty . * Paley on the Moral ...
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... hear ? -take all the pains you can ; and if this does not do , we must think of some other way of life for you . There's a guinea . " " Here , " remarks Boswell , " was one of the many , many instances of his active benevolence " -at ...
... hear ? -take all the pains you can ; and if this does not do , we must think of some other way of life for you . There's a guinea . " " Here , " remarks Boswell , " was one of the many , many instances of his active benevolence " -at ...
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... hears that he is on good terms with his father ! " Cultivate his kindness , " he writes , " by all honest and manly means . . . . It is best not to be angry ; and best , in the next place , to be quickly reconciled . May you and your ...
... hears that he is on good terms with his father ! " Cultivate his kindness , " he writes , " by all honest and manly means . . . . It is best not to be angry ; and best , in the next place , to be quickly reconciled . May you and your ...
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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...