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Pàgina 40
... character : write immediately , and it may be perhaps yet inserted . " Of London or Ashbourne you have your free choice ; at any place I shall be glad to see you . I am , dear sir , " August 24 , 1782. " " Yours , & c . " SAM . JOHNSON ...
... character : write immediately , and it may be perhaps yet inserted . " Of London or Ashbourne you have your free choice ; at any place I shall be glad to see you . I am , dear sir , " August 24 , 1782. " " Yours , & c . " SAM . JOHNSON ...
Pàgina 42
... characters of your tenants , and the value of your lands . " Make my compliments to Mrs. Boswell ; I think her expectations from air and exercise are the best that she can form . I hope she will live long and happily . " I forgot ...
... characters of your tenants , and the value of your lands . " Make my compliments to Mrs. Boswell ; I think her expectations from air and exercise are the best that she can form . I hope she will live long and happily . " I forgot ...
Pàgina 49
... character and new duties ; think on them and practise them . and “ Make an impartial estimate of your revenue , whatever it is , live upon less . Resolve never to be poor . Frugality is not only the basis of quiet , but of beneficence ...
... character and new duties ; think on them and practise them . and “ Make an impartial estimate of your revenue , whatever it is , live upon less . Resolve never to be poor . Frugality is not only the basis of quiet , but of beneficence ...
Pàgina 57
... character , and the events of his life , when he does not choose it should be done . I never have sought the world ; the world was not to seek me . It is rather wonderful that so much has been done for me . All the complaints which are ...
... character , and the events of his life , when he does not choose it should be done . I never have sought the world ; the world was not to seek me . It is rather wonderful that so much has been done for me . All the complaints which are ...
Pàgina 60
... characters : " In fairer scenes , where peaceful pleasures spring , Tityrus , the pride of Mantuan swains , might sing ; But charmed by him , or smitten with his views , Shall modern poets court the Mantuan muse ? From Truth and Nature ...
... characters : " In fairer scenes , where peaceful pleasures spring , Tityrus , the pride of Mantuan swains , might sing ; But charmed by him , or smitten with his views , Shall modern poets court the Mantuan muse ? From Truth and Nature ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 165 - Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Pàgina 24 - His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void ; And sure the eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd.
Pàgina 198 - Johnson having argued for some time with a pertinacious gentleman ; his opponent, who had talked in a very puzzling manner, happened to say, " I don't understand you, Sir ; " upon which Johnson observed, " Sir, I have found you an argument ; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
Pàgina 314 - He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the marvellous and the mysterious, his vigorous reason examined the evidence with jealousy.
Pàgina 292 - Signed, sealed, published and Declared by the said Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the Presence of us who in his presence and at his request and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as Witnesses thereto.
Pàgina 166 - Bacon upon this subject ; testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow ; the force of it depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. Argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has equal force though shot by a child.
Pàgina 220 - Veneration for his virtue, reverence for his talents, delight in his conversation, and habitual endurance of a yoke my husband first put upon me, and of which he contentedly bore his share for sixteen or seventeen years, made me go on so long with Mr. Johnson; but the perpetual confinement I will own to have been terrifying in the first years of our friendship, and irksome in the last; nor could I pretend to support it without help, when my coadjutor was no more.
Pàgina 24 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. " Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Pàgina 182 - It is the most extraordinary thing that has happened in my day. I heard it with my own ears, from his uncle, Lord Westcote. I am so glad to have every evidence of the spiritual world, that I am willing to believe it.
Pàgina 165 - I THEREFORE, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called...