Doctor Johnson: his religious life and his death...Richard Bentley, 1850 - 539 էջ |
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... TRUTH and BENEFICENCE above all others ! " These latter words may be claimed as the text of some discourse in this book . Dr. Johnson truly had no affectation ; no sham eccentricities about him . He was one of Carlyle's " noble silent ...
... TRUTH and BENEFICENCE above all others ! " These latter words may be claimed as the text of some discourse in this book . Dr. Johnson truly had no affectation ; no sham eccentricities about him . He was one of Carlyle's " noble silent ...
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... Truth will not afford sufficient food for their vanity , so they have betaken themselves to error . " All objec- tions to , as well as proof for , any important matter , were reflected on in his mind , and thus he writes , Every thing ...
... Truth will not afford sufficient food for their vanity , so they have betaken themselves to error . " All objec- tions to , as well as proof for , any important matter , were reflected on in his mind , and thus he writes , Every thing ...
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... truth in this observation , any clergyman , accustomed to parochial visiting , will readily perceive . We speak of a man's being brought to the knowledge of religion by sudden affliction or accident , when we should rather say , that ...
... truth in this observation , any clergyman , accustomed to parochial visiting , will readily perceive . We speak of a man's being brought to the knowledge of religion by sudden affliction or accident , when we should rather say , that ...
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... truth , and the life ; and he quickly shows that he has not lived in a Christian land in vain , not come to God's Church in vain , not discoursed with Christian people in vain ; but that there is religious knowledge within him , which ...
... truth , and the life ; and he quickly shows that he has not lived in a Christian land in vain , not come to God's Church in vain , not discoursed with Christian people in vain ; but that there is religious knowledge within him , which ...
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... truth . When Johnson was told that Goldsmith ( and where is an instance of a man's conduct being in greater contrast with his writings , the one so careless , the other so careful ? ) had said , “ As I take my shoes from the shoemaker ...
... truth . When Johnson was told that Goldsmith ( and where is an instance of a man's conduct being in greater contrast with his writings , the one so careless , the other so careful ? ) had said , “ As I take my shoes from the shoemaker ...
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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...