The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and additions to the first edition, Հատոր 21822 |
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... thought , con- clude by chance . To prefer one future mode of life to another , upon just reasons , requires faculties which it has not pleased our Creator to give us . 2 This alludes to the first sentence of the Procemium of my Thesis ...
... thought , con- clude by chance . To prefer one future mode of life to another , upon just reasons , requires faculties which it has not pleased our Creator to give us . 2 This alludes to the first sentence of the Procemium of my Thesis ...
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... thoughts but trade or policy , present power , or present money , I should not think it necessary to defend my ... thought more subtle than the grossness of real life will easily admit . Let it , however , be remembered , that the ...
... thoughts but trade or policy , present power , or present money , I should not think it necessary to defend my ... thought more subtle than the grossness of real life will easily admit . Let it , however , be remembered , that the ...
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... thought he had already done his part as a wri- ter . " I should have thought so too , ( said the King , ) if you had not written so well . " - Johnson observed to me , upon this , that " No man could have paid a handsomer compliment ...
... thought he had already done his part as a wri- ter . " I should have thought so too , ( said the King , ) if you had not written so well . " - Johnson observed to me , upon this , that " No man could have paid a handsomer compliment ...
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... thought of Lord Lyttelton's history , which was then just published . Johnson said , he thought his style pretty good , but that he had blamed Henry the Second rather too much . " Why , ( said the King , ) they seldom do these things by ...
... thought of Lord Lyttelton's history , which was then just published . Johnson said , he thought his style pretty good , but that he had blamed Henry the Second rather too much . " Why , ( said the King , ) they seldom do these things by ...
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... thought of Dr. Hill . Johnson answered , that he was an ingenious man , but had no veracity ; and immediately mentioned , as an instance of it , an assertion of that writer , that he had seen objects magnified to a much greater degree ...
... thought of Dr. Hill . Johnson answered , that he was an ingenious man , but had no veracity ; and immediately mentioned , as an instance of it , an assertion of that writer , that he had seen objects magnified to a much greater degree ...
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Էջ 301 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Էջ 207 - Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem to think; for if you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like WHALES.
Էջ 424 - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Էջ 314 - He made the common remark on the unhappiness which men who have led a busy life experience, when they retire in expectation of enjoying themselves at ease, and that they generally languish for want of their habitual occupation, and wish to return to it. He mentioned as strong an instance of this as can well be imagined.
Էջ 150 - But, Sir, in the British Constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the Crown ". JoHNSON : " Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig. — Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the Crown ? The Crown has not power enough.
Էջ 112 - the poor in England were better provided for than in any other country of the same extent: he did not mean little Cantons, or petty Republicks. Where a great proportion of the people...
Էջ 205 - ... that the fear of something made him resolve ; it is upon the state of his mind, after the resolution is taken, that I argue. Suppose a man either from fear, or pride, or conscience, or whatever motive, has resolved to kill himself; when once the resolution is taken, he has nothing to fear. He may then go and take the King of Prussia by the nose, at the head of his army. He cannot fear the rack, who is resolved to kill himself. When Eustace...
Էջ 1 - Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. A peasant has not capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher.
Էջ 211 - Yet there is no man whose company is more liked.' JOHNSON. 'To be sure, Sir. When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer, their inferiour while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.