The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.G. Walker ... [and 9 others], 1820 |
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Pàgina 7
... rest , but on Monday was seized with a weakness that threatened immediate death ; and on Thursday prepared for his change by receiving the Viaticum with such marks of de- votion , as equally melted and edified the beholders . Through ...
... rest , but on Monday was seized with a weakness that threatened immediate death ; and on Thursday prepared for his change by receiving the Viaticum with such marks of de- votion , as equally melted and edified the beholders . Through ...
Pàgina 46
... rest of his fleet , that , if it were possible , a general battle might be prevented . But the Dutch , in- stead of admitting him to treat , fired upon him from their whole fleet , without any regard to the customs of war , or the law ...
... rest of his fleet , that , if it were possible , a general battle might be prevented . But the Dutch , in- stead of admitting him to treat , fired upon him from their whole fleet , without any regard to the customs of war , or the law ...
Pàgina 52
... rest of the English fleet now came in , and the fight was continued with the utmost degree of vigour and resolution , till the night gave the Dutch an opportunity of retiring , with the loss of one flag - ship , and six other men of war ...
... rest of the English fleet now came in , and the fight was continued with the utmost degree of vigour and resolution , till the night gave the Dutch an opportunity of retiring , with the loss of one flag - ship , and six other men of war ...
Pàgina 76
... rest . In the mean time , his brother , Captain John Drake , went , according to the instructions that had been left him , in search of the Symerons or fugitive negroes , from whose assistance alone they had now any prospect of a ...
... rest . In the mean time , his brother , Captain John Drake , went , according to the instructions that had been left him , in search of the Symerons or fugitive negroes , from whose assistance alone they had now any prospect of a ...
Pàgina 87
... rest having no other burden than provisions . The driver was brought immediately to the cap- tain , and informed him that the horseman , whom he had observed pass by with so much precipita- tion , had informed the treasurer of what he ...
... rest having no other burden than provisions . The driver was brought immediately to the cap- tain , and informed him that the horseman , whom he had observed pass by with so much precipita- tion , had informed the treasurer of what he ...
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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...