The works of Samuel Johnson, Volum 81824 |
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Pàgina 15
... things , who have not abilities likewise to perform them . To have formed the design of gaining a complete knowledge ... thing appears impossible , and who think nothing worthy of their efforts but what appears insurmountable to common ...
... things , who have not abilities likewise to perform them . To have formed the design of gaining a complete knowledge ... thing appears impossible , and who think nothing worthy of their efforts but what appears insurmountable to common ...
Pàgina 23
... things , and that all the knowledge we have is of such qualities alone as are discoverable by experience , or such as may be deduced from them by mathematical demon- stration . This discourse , filled as it was with piety , and a true ...
... things , and that all the knowledge we have is of such qualities alone as are discoverable by experience , or such as may be deduced from them by mathematical demon- stration . This discourse , filled as it was with piety , and a true ...
Pàgina 27
... thing parallel . One instance I shall mention , which is produced by him , of the vanity of any attempt to rival the work of God . Nothing is more boasted by the admirers of chemistry , than that they can , by artificial heats and ...
... thing parallel . One instance I shall mention , which is produced by him , of the vanity of any attempt to rival the work of God . Nothing is more boasted by the admirers of chemistry , than that they can , by artificial heats and ...
Pàgina 30
... thing desirable but what is most pleasing to the Supreme Goodness . " Such were his sentiments , and such his conduct , in this state of weakness and pain : as death ap- proached nearer , he was so far from terror or con- fusion , that ...
... thing desirable but what is most pleasing to the Supreme Goodness . " Such were his sentiments , and such his conduct , in this state of weakness and pain : as death ap- proached nearer , he was so far from terror or con- fusion , that ...
Pàgina 33
... thing to himself , or to conceive that he could subdue passion , or withstand temp- tation , by his own natural power ; he attributed every good thought , and every laudable action , to the Father of goodness . Being once asked by a ...
... thing to himself , or to conceive that he could subdue passion , or withstand temp- tation , by his own natural power ; he attributed every good thought , and every laudable action , to the Father of goodness . Being once asked by a ...
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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.