The works of Samuel Johnson, Volum 81824 |
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Pàgina 5
... equally shocking , weak , pernicious , and absurd ; which did not require the abilities or learn- ing of Father Paul , to demonstrate their falsehood , and destructive tendency . It may be easily imagined that such principles . were ...
... equally shocking , weak , pernicious , and absurd ; which did not require the abilities or learn- ing of Father Paul , to demonstrate their falsehood , and destructive tendency . It may be easily imagined that such principles . were ...
Pàgina 7
... equally melted and edified the be- holders . Through the whole course of his illness to the last hour of his life , he was consulted by the se- nate in publick affairs , and returned answers , in his greatest weakness , with such ...
... equally melted and edified the be- holders . Through the whole course of his illness to the last hour of his life , he was consulted by the se- nate in publick affairs , and returned answers , in his greatest weakness , with such ...
Pàgina 10
... appli- cations , that the disease and remedies were equally insufferable . Then it was that his own pain taught him to compassionate others , and his expe- rience of the inefficacy of the methods then in use 10 BOERHAAVE .
... appli- cations , that the disease and remedies were equally insufferable . Then it was that his own pain taught him to compassionate others , and his expe- rience of the inefficacy of the methods then in use 10 BOERHAAVE .
Pàgina 11
... equally conspicuous . In six months , by gaining the first prize in the fourth class , he was raised to the fifth : and in six months more , upon the same proof of the superiority of his genius , rewarded with ano- ther prize , and ...
... equally conspicuous . In six months , by gaining the first prize in the fourth class , he was raised to the fifth : and in six months more , upon the same proof of the superiority of his genius , rewarded with ano- ther prize , and ...
Pàgina 13
... equally raised the characters of his piety and erudition . Divinity was still his great employment , and the chief aim of all his studies . He read the scriptures in their original languages , and when difficulties occurred , consulted ...
... equally raised the characters of his piety and erudition . Divinity was still his great employment , and the chief aim of all his studies . He read the scriptures in their original languages , and when difficulties occurred , consulted ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 435 - Imlac,) I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth...
Pàgina 464 - A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year ; and perceive that incidents and intelligence pass over me, without leaving any impression.
Pàgina 510 - ALMIGHTY God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Pàgina 540 - LORD, that my whole hope and confidence may be in his merits, and thy mercy; enforce and accept my imperfect repentance; make this commemoration available to the confirmation of my faith, the establishment of my hope, and the enlargement of my charity ; and make the death of thy Son JESUS CHRIST effectual to my redemption.
Pàgina 416 - I was alarmed and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body he would spare my understanding. This prayer, that I might try the integrity of my faculties I made in Latin verse. The lines were not very good, but I knew them not to be very good, I made them easily, and concluded myself to be unimpaired in my faculties.
Pàgina 415 - I am sitting down in no cheerful solitude to write a narrative which would once have affected you with tenderness and sorrow, but which you will perhaps pass over now with the careless glance of frigid indifference. For this diminution of regard, however, I know not whether I ought to blame you, who may have reasons which I cannot know, and I do not blame myself, who have for a great part of human life done you what good I could, and have never done you evil.
Pàgina 265 - The Religio Medici was no sooner published than it excited the attention of the public, by the novelty of paradoxes, the dignity of sentiment, the quick succession of images, the multitude of abstruse allusions, the subtlety of disquisition, and the strength of language.
Pàgina 409 - Sessions-House at the Old Bailey. There were not, I believe, a hundred; but they did their work at leisure, in full security, without sentinels, without trepidation, as men lawfully employed, in full day: Such is the cowardice of a commercial place.
Pàgina 274 - It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain...
Pàgina 34 - Being once asked by a friend, who had often admired his patience under great provocations, whether he knew what it was to be angry, and by what means he had so entirely suppressed that impetuous and ungovernable passion, he answered, with the utmost frankness and sincerity, that he was naturally quick of resentment, but that he had, by daily prayer and meditation, at length attained to this mastery over himself.