The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and additions to the first edition, Volum 31816 |
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Pàgina 11
... wish a man to have that belief which you think is of infinite advantage , you wish well to him ; but your primary consideration is your own quiet . If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand , no doubt we should ...
... wish a man to have that belief which you think is of infinite advantage , you wish well to him ; but your primary consideration is your own quiet . If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand , no doubt we should ...
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... wish there were many places of a thousand a year at Oxford , to keep first- rate men of learning from quitting the University . " Undoubtedly if this were the case , Literature would have a still greater dignity and splendour at Oxford ...
... wish there were many places of a thousand a year at Oxford , to keep first- rate men of learning from quitting the University . " Undoubtedly if this were the case , Literature would have a still greater dignity and splendour at Oxford ...
Pàgina 19
... wish for his remarks on Italy , he said , " I do not see that I could make a book upon Italy ; yet I should be glad to get two hundred pounds , or five hundred pounds , by such a work . " This shewed both that a journal of his Tour upon ...
... wish for his remarks on Italy , he said , " I do not see that I could make a book upon Italy ; yet I should be glad to get two hundred pounds , or five hundred pounds , by such a work . " This shewed both that a journal of his Tour upon ...
Pàgina 46
... wish they would come up , or come down . What Soame Jenyns says upon this subject is not to be minded ; he is a wit . No , Sir ; to act from pure benevolence is not possi- ble for finite beings . Human benevolence is min- gled with ...
... wish they would come up , or come down . What Soame Jenyns says upon this subject is not to be minded ; he is a wit . No , Sir ; to act from pure benevolence is not possi- ble for finite beings . Human benevolence is min- gled with ...
Pàgina 47
... wish to go and live three years at Otaheité , or New Zealand , in order to obtain a full acquaintance with people , so totally different from all that we have ever known , and be satisfied what pure nature can do for man . JOHNSON ...
... wish to go and live three years at Otaheité , or New Zealand , in order to obtain a full acquaintance with people , so totally different from all that we have ever known , and be satisfied what pure nature can do for man . JOHNSON ...
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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.