Doctor Johnson: his religious life and his death...Richard Bentley, 1850 - 539 էջ |
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... telling more of severity than sweet- ness , savouring of any apostolic mind , rather than that of the beloved disciple who leaned on the heavenly bosom : there is such knowledge of the human heart in its worth and in its pretensions ...
... telling more of severity than sweet- ness , savouring of any apostolic mind , rather than that of the beloved disciple who leaned on the heavenly bosom : there is such knowledge of the human heart in its worth and in its pretensions ...
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... tell in what degree this hope of maternal cognisance may not have guided her son , not only in that great work ( his Dictionary ) of which it is recorded , " that he has quoted no author whose writings had a tendency to hurt sound ...
... tell in what degree this hope of maternal cognisance may not have guided her son , not only in that great work ( his Dictionary ) of which it is recorded , " that he has quoted no author whose writings had a tendency to hurt sound ...
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... tell him of his danger , goes far to invest him with the character of integrity ; and it is a fact that cannot be denied , that we do find men capable of the purest moral conduct apart from any belief in any particular religion ...
... tell him of his danger , goes far to invest him with the character of integrity ; and it is a fact that cannot be denied , that we do find men capable of the purest moral conduct apart from any belief in any particular religion ...
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... telling a story . Boswell was once suggesting , that probably more gentleness of manner might have added benefit to his conversations ; " No , Sir , " said Dr. Johnson , " I have done more good as I am . Ob- scenity and impiety have ...
... telling a story . Boswell was once suggesting , that probably more gentleness of manner might have added benefit to his conversations ; " No , Sir , " said Dr. Johnson , " I have done more good as I am . Ob- scenity and impiety have ...
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... tell us of a lieutenant who still continued to execrate his eyes , although he had lost one of them . The worst sin that attaches to swearing is , that we undeservedly make the Almighty a wholesale condemner of mankind , whenever any ...
... tell us of a lieutenant who still continued to execrate his eyes , although he had lost one of them . The worst sin that attaches to swearing is , that we undeservedly make the Almighty a wholesale condemner of mankind , whenever any ...
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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...