The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.G. Walker ... [and 9 others], 1820 |
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Pàgina 26
... ship of chemistry ; on which occasion he pro- nounced an oration , " De Chemiâ errores suos ex- purgante , " in which he treated that science with an elegance of style not often to be found in che- mical writers , who seem generally to ...
... ship of chemistry ; on which occasion he pro- nounced an oration , " De Chemiâ errores suos ex- purgante , " in which he treated that science with an elegance of style not often to be found in che- mical writers , who seem generally to ...
Pàgina 43
... ships , and burnt three . It was to no purpose that the King of Portugal , alarmed at so unexpected a destruction , ordered Prince Rupert to attack him , and retake the Brasil ships . Blake carried home his prizes without molestation ...
... ships , and burnt three . It was to no purpose that the King of Portugal , alarmed at so unexpected a destruction , ordered Prince Rupert to attack him , and retake the Brasil ships . Blake carried home his prizes without molestation ...
Pàgina 44
... ships , obliged him to quit the sea , and take sanctuary at the Spanish court . In February 1650-1 , Blake still continuing to cruise in the Mediterranean , met a French ship of considerable force , and commanded the captain to come on ...
... ships , obliged him to quit the sea , and take sanctuary at the Spanish court . In February 1650-1 , Blake still continuing to cruise in the Mediterranean , met a French ship of considerable force , and commanded the captain to come on ...
Pàgina 45
... ship , and defend it as long as he could . " The captain will- ingly accepted his offer , and after a fight of two hours , confessed himself conquered , kissed his sword , and surrendered it . In 1652 broke out the memorable war between ...
... ship , and defend it as long as he could . " The captain will- ingly accepted his offer , and after a fight of two hours , confessed himself conquered , kissed his sword , and surrendered it . In 1652 broke out the memorable war between ...
Pàgina 46
... ships , upon the approach of the Dutch admiral saluted him with three single shots , to require that he should , by ... ship before the rest of his fleet , that , if it were possible , a general battle might be prevented . But the Dutch ...
... ships , upon the approach of the Dutch admiral saluted him with three single shots , to require that he should , by ... ship before the rest of his fleet , that , if it were possible , a general battle might be prevented . But the Dutch ...
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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...