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... Letter to the People of Scotland , against diminishing the number of the Lords of Session , " published in 1785 , there is the following passage , which , as a concise , and I hope a fair and rational state of the matter , I presume to ...
... Letter to the People of Scotland , against diminishing the number of the Lords of Session , " published in 1785 , there is the following passage , which , as a concise , and I hope a fair and rational state of the matter , I presume to ...
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... letter from the East - Indies , from a gentleman whom I formerly knew very well ; he had returned from that country with a handsome fortune , as it was reckoned , before means were found to acquire those immense sums which have been ...
... letter from the East - Indies , from a gentleman whom I formerly knew very well ; he had returned from that country with a handsome fortune , as it was reckoned , before means were found to acquire those immense sums which have been ...
Pàgina 51
... Letters to his son , I think , might be made a very pretty book . Take out the immorality , and it should be put in the hands of every young gentleman . An elegant manner and easiness of behaviour are acquired gradually and im ...
... Letters to his son , I think , might be made a very pretty book . Take out the immorality , and it should be put in the hands of every young gentleman . An elegant manner and easiness of behaviour are acquired gradually and im ...
Pàgina 87
... letter with which you favoured me some time ago . I imagined it to have been written with- out Mr. Boswell's knowledge , and therefore supposed the answer to require , what I could not find , a pri- vate conveyance . " The difference ...
... letter with which you favoured me some time ago . I imagined it to have been written with- out Mr. Boswell's knowledge , and therefore supposed the answer to require , what I could not find , a pri- vate conveyance . " The difference ...
Pàgina 88
... letters were too long . There is no danger of that com- plaint being made at present ; for I find it difficult for me to write to you at all . [ Here an account of having been afflicted with a return of melancholy or bad spirits . ] 4 ...
... letters were too long . There is no danger of that com- plaint being made at present ; for I find it difficult for me to write to you at all . [ Here an account of having been afflicted with a return of melancholy or bad spirits . ] 4 ...
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Pàgina 220 - How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes T' and in his conversation with Mr.
Pàgina 196 - Why, Sir, you \ find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. \ No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Pàgina 318 - ... to certainty, freedom ceases, because that cannot be certainly foreknown which is not certain at the time; but if it be certain at the time, it is a contradiction in terms to maintain that there can be afterwards any contingency dependent upon the exercise of will or any thing else." JOHNSON. " All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Pàgina 398 - ... perpetual jarring of those whom he charitably accommodated under his roof. He has sometimes suffered me to talk jocularly of his group of females, and call them his Seraglio. He thus mentions them, together with honest Levett, in one of his letters to Mrs. Thrale : " Williams hates every body ; Levett hates Desmoulins, and does not love Williams ; Desmoulins hates them both ; Poll loves none of them.
Pàgina 377 - He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all.
Pàgina 35 - A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean.
Pàgina 67 - Provided, sir, I suppose, that the company which he is to have, is agreeable to you." JOHNSON. "What do you mean, sir? What do you take me for? Do you think I am so ignorant of the world as to imagine that I am to prescribe to a gentleman what company he is to have at his table?
Pàgina 66 - Notwithstanding the high veneration which I entertained for Dr. Johnson, I was sensible that he was sometimes a little actuated by the spirit of contradiction, and by means of that I hoped I should gain my point. I was persuaded that if I had come upon him with a direct proposal, "Sir, will you dine in company with Jack Wilkes?" he would have flown into a passion, and would probably have answered, "Dine with Jack Wilkes, Sir ! I'd as soon dine with Jack Ketch.
Pàgina 332 - I am a straggler. I may leave this town and go to Grand Cairo, without being missed here or observed there." EDWARDS. "Don't you eat supper, Sir?
Pàgina 32 - Reviewers (said he) are not Deists ; but they are Christians with as little Christianity as may be ; and are for pulling down all establishments. The Critical Reviewers are for supporting the constitution, both in church and state. The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the books through ; but lay hold of a topick, and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly Reviewers are duller men, and are glad to read the books through.