The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.G. Walker ... [and 9 others], 1820 |
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Pàgina 6
... soon found the effects of it ; for as he was going one night to his convent , about six months after the accommo- dation , he was attacked by five ruffians armed with stilettoes , who gave him no less than fifteen stabs , three of which ...
... soon found the effects of it ; for as he was going one night to his convent , about six months after the accommo- dation , he was attacked by five ruffians armed with stilettoes , who gave him no less than fifteen stabs , three of which ...
Pàgina 13
... soon after professor of divinity at Leyden , distinguished him in a particular man- ner , and recommended him to the friendship of Mr Van Apphen , in whom he found a generous and constant patron . He became now a diligent hearer of the ...
... soon after professor of divinity at Leyden , distinguished him in a particular man- ner , and recommended him to the friendship of Mr Van Apphen , in whom he found a generous and constant patron . He became now a diligent hearer of the ...
Pàgina 36
... soon as he rose in the morning , it was , through- out his whole life , his daily practice to retire for an hour to private prayer and meditation ; this , he often told his friends , gave him spirit and vigour in the business of the day ...
... soon as he rose in the morning , it was , through- out his whole life , his daily practice to retire for an hour to private prayer and meditation ; this , he often told his friends , gave him spirit and vigour in the business of the day ...
Pàgina 43
... soon afterwards sent in pursuit of Prince Rupert , whom he shut up in the harbour- of Kinsale in Ireland for several months , till want of provisions , and despair of relief , excited the Prince to make a daring effort for his escape ...
... soon afterwards sent in pursuit of Prince Rupert , whom he shut up in the harbour- of Kinsale in Ireland for several months , till want of provisions , and despair of relief , excited the Prince to make a daring effort for his escape ...
Pàgina 44
Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy. Blake soon supplied his fleet with provision , and received orders to make reprisals upon the French , who had suffered their privateers to molest the English trade ; an injury which , in those days , was ...
Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy. Blake soon supplied his fleet with provision , and received orders to make reprisals upon the French , who had suffered their privateers to molest the English trade ; an injury which , in those days , was ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 455 - ... commemoration available to the confirmation of my faith, the establishment of my hope, and the enlargement of my charity; and make the death of thy Son JESUS CHRIST effectual to my redemption. Have mercy upon me, and pardon the multitude of my offences. Bless my friends ; have mercy upon all men. Support me, by thy Holy Spirit, in the days of weakness, and at the hour of death ; and receive me, at my death, to everlasting happiness, for the sake of JESUS CHRIST. Amen.
Pàgina 283 - a lady," says Whitefoot, " of such symmetrical proportion to her worthy husband, both in the graces of her body and mind, that they seemed to come together by a kind of natural magnetism.
Pàgina 311 - Faith ; to be particular, I am of that Reformed new-cast Religion, wherein I dislike nothing but the Name ; of the same belief our Saviour taught, the Apostles disseminated, the Fathers authorized, and the Martyrs confirmed, but by the sinister ends of Princes, the ambition and avarice of Prelates, and the fatal corruption of times, so decayed, impaired, and fallen from its native Beauty, that it required the careful and charitable hands of these times to restore it to its primitive Integrity.
Pàgina 436 - I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would spare my understanding. This prayer, that I might try the integrity of my faculties, I made in Latin verse. The lines were not very good, but I knew them not to be very good : I made them easily, and concluded myself to be unimpaired in my faculties.
Pàgina 60 - He was the first man who brought the ships to contemn castles on shore, which had been thought ever very formidable, and were discovered by him to make a noise only, and to fright those who could rarely be hurt by them. He was the first that infused that proportion of courage into the seamen, by making them see by experience what mighty things they could do if they were resolved...
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 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 60 - He was the first that infused that proportion of courage into seamen, by making them see, by experience, what mighty things they could do if they were resolved, and taught them to fight in fire, as well as upon...
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 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.