The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.G. Walker ... [and 9 others], 1820 |
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Pàgina 65
... Queen Elizabeth ; for the Spaniards , deaf to all remonstrances , either vindi- cated the injustice of the viceroy , or at least for- bore to redress it . VOL . XII . E Drake , thus oppressed and impoverished , retained at least SIR ...
... Queen Elizabeth ; for the Spaniards , deaf to all remonstrances , either vindi- cated the injustice of the viceroy , or at least for- bore to redress it . VOL . XII . E Drake , thus oppressed and impoverished , retained at least SIR ...
Pàgina 101
... Queen , by which he was constituted cap- tain - general of a fleet consisting of five vessels , of which the Pelican , admiral , of an hundred tons , was commanded by himself ; the Elizabeth , vice - admiral , of eighty tons , by John ...
... Queen , by which he was constituted cap- tain - general of a fleet consisting of five vessels , of which the Pelican , admiral , of an hundred tons , was commanded by himself ; the Elizabeth , vice - admiral , of eighty tons , by John ...
Pàgina 135
... Queen Elizabeth , not without ardent wishes that this acquisition might have been of use to his native country , and that so mild and innocent a people might have been united to the church of Christ . The kingdom being thus consigned ...
... Queen Elizabeth , not without ardent wishes that this acquisition might have been of use to his native country , and that so mild and innocent a people might have been united to the church of Christ . The kingdom being thus consigned ...
Pàgina 146
... Queen Elizabeth visited him on board his ship , and conferred the honour of knighthood upon him ; an honour in that illustrious reign not made cheap by prostitution , nor even bestowed without uncom- mon merit . It is not necessary to ...
... Queen Elizabeth visited him on board his ship , and conferred the honour of knighthood upon him ; an honour in that illustrious reign not made cheap by prostitution , nor even bestowed without uncom- mon merit . It is not necessary to ...
Pàgina 222
... designed or accidental , was returned by blows , which he did not always forbear to the Queen and Princesses . * First printed in the Literary Magazine for 1756. H. From such a king and such a father it was 28 King of PRUSSIA,
... designed or accidental , was returned by blows , which he did not always forbear to the Queen and Princesses . * First printed in the Literary Magazine for 1756. H. From such a king and such a father it was 28 King of PRUSSIA,
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Pàgina 338 - I cannot forbear to mention, that neither reason nor revelation denies you to hope, that you may increase her happiness, by obeying her precepts ; and that she may, in her present state, look, with pleasure, upon every act of virtue, to which her instructions or example have contributed.
Pàgina 377 - We had a passage of about twelve miles to the point where resided, having come from his seat in the middle of the island to a small house on the shore, as we believe, that he might with less reproach entertain us meanly. If he aspired to meanness, his retrograde ambition was completely gratified, but he did not succeed equally in escaping reproach. He had no cook, nor I suppose much provision, nor had the lady the common decencies of her tea-table: we picked up our sugar with our fingers. Boswell...
Pàgina 435 - 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 280 - There are many things delivered rhetorically, many expressions therein merely tropical, and as they best illustrate my intention ; and therefore also there are many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense, and not to be called unto the rigid test of reason.
Pàgina 284 - ... and had^[ lately declared, that " the whole world was made for man, " but only the twelfth part of man for woman ;" and, that " man is the whole world, but woman only " the rib or crooked part of man.
Pàgina 378 - The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Pàgina 287 - Happy are they which live not in that disadvantage of time, when men could say little for futurity, but from reason...
Pàgina 287 - In 1658 the discovery of some ancient urns in Norfolk gave him occasion to write Hydriotaphia, Urn-burial, or a Discourse of sepulchral Urns, in which he treats with his usual learning on the funeral rites of the ancient nations ; exhibits their various treatment of the dead ; and examines the substances found in his Norfolcian urns.
Pàgina 301 - His memory, though not so eminent as that of Seneca or Scaliger, was capacious and tenacious, insomuch as he remembered all that was remarkable in any book that he had read...