The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.G. Walker ... [and 9 others], 1820 |
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Pàgina 28
... perhaps an instance of fortitude and steady composure of mind , which would have been for ever the boast of the Stoic schools , and increas- ed the reputation of Seneca or Cato . The patience of Boerhaave , as it was more rational , was ...
... perhaps an instance of fortitude and steady composure of mind , which would have been for ever the boast of the Stoic schools , and increas- ed the reputation of Seneca or Cato . The patience of Boerhaave , as it was more rational , was ...
Pàgina 45
... perhaps any age has produced , were engaged on each side , in which nothing less was contested than the do- minion of the sea , and which was carried on with vigour , animosity , and resolution , proportioned to the importance of the ...
... perhaps any age has produced , were engaged on each side , in which nothing less was contested than the do- minion of the sea , and which was carried on with vigour , animosity , and resolution , proportioned to the importance of the ...
Pàgina 50
... perhaps not fully informed of the superiority of his enemies , put out to encounter them , though his fleet was so weakly manned , that half of his ships were obliged to lie idle without engaging , for want of sailors . The force of the ...
... perhaps not fully informed of the superiority of his enemies , put out to encounter them , though his fleet was so weakly manned , that half of his ships were obliged to lie idle without engaging , for want of sailors . The force of the ...
Pàgina 60
... perhaps , ingrati- tude . " Let no man , says the oriental proverb , " pull a dead lion by the beard . " But that regard which was denied his body has been paid to his better remains , his name and his memory . Nor has any writer dared ...
... perhaps , ingrati- tude . " Let no man , says the oriental proverb , " pull a dead lion by the beard . " But that regard which was denied his body has been paid to his better remains , his name and his memory . Nor has any writer dared ...
Pàgina 70
... perhaps the enemy might suffer in common with them , but which , however , on this occasion , very much embarrassed them , as the delay produced by it repressed that ardour which sometimes is only to be kept up by continued action , and ...
... perhaps the enemy might suffer in common with them , but which , however , on this occasion , very much embarrassed them , as the delay produced by it repressed that ardour which sometimes is only to be kept up by continued action , and ...
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Passatges populars
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...