Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... consider how foolish you would think it in them to be appre- hensive that you are ill * . ' This sudden turn relieved me for the moment ; but I afterwards perceived it to be an ingenious fallacy . I might , to be sure , be satisfied ...
... consider how foolish you would think it in them to be appre- hensive that you are ill * . ' This sudden turn relieved me for the moment ; but I afterwards perceived it to be an ingenious fallacy . I might , to be sure , be satisfied ...
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... considers how very little he can learn from such voyages . ' BOSWELL . ' But one is carried away with the general grand and indistinct notion of A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD . ' * See ante , i . 86. It was reprinted in 1789 . 2 See ...
... considers how very little he can learn from such voyages . ' BOSWELL . ' But one is carried away with the general grand and indistinct notion of A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD . ' * See ante , i . 86. It was reprinted in 1789 . 2 See ...
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... Consider , Sir , how should you like , 1 ' There is a time when every man is weary of raising difficulties only to task himself with the solu- tion , and desires to enjoy truth with- out the labour or hazard of contest . ' Johnson's ...
... Consider , Sir , how should you like , 1 ' There is a time when every man is weary of raising difficulties only to task himself with the solu- tion , and desires to enjoy truth with- out the labour or hazard of contest . ' Johnson's ...
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... consider academical institutions as preparatory to a settlement in the world . It is only by being employed as a tutor , that a fellow can obtain any thing more than a livelihood . To be sure a man , who has enough without teaching ...
... consider academical institutions as preparatory to a settlement in the world . It is only by being employed as a tutor , that a fellow can obtain any thing more than a livelihood . To be sure a man , who has enough without teaching ...
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... consider the state of life is this ; we are to judge of one another's characters as well as we can ; and a man is not bound , in honesty or honour , to tell us the faults of his daughter or of himself . A man who has debauched his ...
... consider the state of life is this ; we are to judge of one another's characters as well as we can ; and a man is not bound , in honesty or honour , to tell us the faults of his daughter or of himself . A man who has debauched his ...
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الصفحة 380 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
الصفحة 455 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
الصفحة 455 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
الصفحة 381 - Poor stuff! No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
الصفحة 154 - It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates, and masters, the fear of death : and therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants, about him, that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it...
الصفحة 302 - He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in travelling ; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
الصفحة 72 - To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays, And yet deny the Careless Husband praise, Or say our fathers never broke a rule ; Why then, I say, the public is a fool.
الصفحة 13 - I was never summoned to attend even the ceremony of a lecture; and, excepting one voluntary visit to his rooms during the eight months of his titular office, the tutor and pupil lived in the same college as strangers to...
الصفحة 358 - Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.
الصفحة 159 - Hermit hoar in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray : Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell, What is bliss? and which the way?