The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.G. Walker ... [and 9 others], 1820 |
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Pàgina 16
... things , who have not abilities likewise to perform them . To have formed the design of gaining a complete knowledge ... thing appears impossible , and who think nothing worthy of their efforts but what appears insurmountable to common ...
... things , who have not abilities likewise to perform them . To have formed the design of gaining a complete knowledge ... thing appears impossible , and who think nothing worthy of their efforts but what appears insurmountable to common ...
Pàgina 24
... things , and that all the knowledge we have is of such qualities alone as are discoverable by experience , or such as may be deduced from them by mathematical demonstra- tion . This discourse , filled as it was with piety , and a true ...
... things , and that all the knowledge we have is of such qualities alone as are discoverable by experience , or such as may be deduced from them by mathematical demonstra- tion . This discourse , filled as it was with piety , and a true ...
Pàgina 27
... thing could be attempted , because nothing could be proposed with the least prospect of success . At length having , in the sixth month of his illness , ob- tained some remission , he took simple medicines * in large quantities , and at ...
... thing could be attempted , because nothing could be proposed with the least prospect of success . At length having , in the sixth month of his illness , ob- tained some remission , he took simple medicines * in large quantities , and at ...
Pàgina 28
... thing parallel . One instance I shall mention , which is produced by him , of the vanity of any attempt to rival the work of God . Nothing is more boasted by the admirers # of chemistry , than that they can , by 28 BOERHAAVE .
... thing parallel . One instance I shall mention , which is produced by him , of the vanity of any attempt to rival the work of God . Nothing is more boasted by the admirers # of chemistry , than that they can , by 28 BOERHAAVE .
Pàgina 32
... thing desirable but what is most pleasing to the Supreme Goodness . " Such were his sentiments , and such his conduct , in this state of weakness and pain . As death ap- proached nearer , he was so far from terror or con- fusion , that ...
... thing desirable but what is most pleasing to the Supreme Goodness . " Such were his sentiments , and such his conduct , in this state of weakness and pain . As death ap- proached nearer , he was so far from terror or con- fusion , that ...
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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...