The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volum 12Nichols, 1816 |
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Pàgina 4
... honoured him with many proofs of his esteem . But Father Paul , finding a court life not agree- able to his temper , quitted it two years afterwards , and retired to his beloved privacies , being then not only acquainted with the Latin ...
... honoured him with many proofs of his esteem . But Father Paul , finding a court life not agree- able to his temper , quitted it two years afterwards , and retired to his beloved privacies , being then not only acquainted with the Latin ...
Pàgina 8
... honour of the Venetians . But the defenders of the Venetian rights were , though comprehended in the treaty , excluded by the Romans from the benefit of it ; some upon different pretences were imprisoned , some sent to the galleys , and ...
... honour of the Venetians . But the defenders of the Venetian rights were , though comprehended in the treaty , excluded by the Romans from the benefit of it ; some upon different pretences were imprisoned , some sent to the galleys , and ...
Pàgina 10
... honoured by all the learned for his abi- lities , and by the good for his integrity . His detest- ation of the corruption of the Roman church ap- pears in all his writings , but particularly in this me- morable passage of one of his ...
... honoured by all the learned for his abi- lities , and by the good for his integrity . His detest- ation of the corruption of the Roman church ap- pears in all his writings , but particularly in this me- morable passage of one of his ...
Pàgina 19
... honour of a degree in that science , to " petition regularly for a licence to preach , and to 66 engage in the cure of souls , " and intended in his theological exercise to discuss this question , why " so many were formerly converted ...
... honour of a degree in that science , to " petition regularly for a licence to preach , and to 66 engage in the cure of souls , " and intended in his theological exercise to discuss this question , why " so many were formerly converted ...
Pàgina 27
... honour than the victory he gained , " that he should think himself sufficiently " compensated , if his adversary received no farther " molestation on his account . " So far was this weak and injudicious attack from shaking a reputation ...
... honour than the victory he gained , " that he should think himself sufficiently " compensated , if his adversary received no farther " molestation on his account . " So far was this weak and injudicious attack from shaking a reputation ...
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Pàgina 229 - 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 229 - The reciprocal civility. of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.
Pàgina 327 - I sat for my picture, and walked a considerable way with little inconvenience. In the afternoon and evening I felt myself light and easy, and began to plan schemes of life. Thus I went to bed, and in a short time waked and sat up, as has...
Pàgina 337 - ... 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 229 - ... 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 55 - 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 ; and taught them to fight in fire as well as upon water : and though he hath been very well imitated and followed, he was the first that gave the example of that kind of naval courage », and bold and resolute achievements.
Pàgina 337 - Almighty and most merciful Father, I am now, as to human eyes it seems, about to commemorate, for the last time, the death of thy son Jesus Christ, our Saviour and Redeemer. Grant, O Lord, that my whole hope and confidence may be in his merits and in thy mercy: forgive and accept my late conversion; enforce and accept my imperfect repentance...
Pàgina 229 - It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progrcssional, and otherwise made in vain...
Pàgina 288 - 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 327 - 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.