Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... effect . ' European Mag . xiii . 315. It was on the evening of the 29th that Boswell found Johnson , as he thought , not in very good humour . Yet on the 30th he wrote to Mrs. Thrale , and called on Mr. Thrale . On April 1 and April 4 ...
... effect . ' European Mag . xiii . 315. It was on the evening of the 29th that Boswell found Johnson , as he thought , not in very good humour . Yet on the 30th he wrote to Mrs. Thrale , and called on Mr. Thrale . On April 1 and April 4 ...
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... effect . In the King's Bench , Trinity Term , 1790 , the question occurred on oc- casion of an indictment , The King v . Topham , who , as a proprietor of a news - paper entitled The World , was found guilty of a libel against Earl ...
... effect . In the King's Bench , Trinity Term , 1790 , the question occurred on oc- casion of an indictment , The King v . Topham , who , as a proprietor of a news - paper entitled The World , was found guilty of a libel against Earl ...
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... effects of appetite from violating the decent order of life ; nay , should be permitted , in order to preserve the chastity of our wives and daughters . Depend upon it , Sir , severe laws , steadily enforced , would be sufficient ...
... effects of appetite from violating the decent order of life ; nay , should be permitted , in order to preserve the chastity of our wives and daughters . Depend upon it , Sir , severe laws , steadily enforced , would be sufficient ...
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... effect , I grieve only at the cause . ' Piozzi Letters , i . 314. Mrs. Thrale on May 3 wrote : - ' Baretti said you would be very angry , because this dreadful event made us put off our Italian journey , but I knew you better . Who ...
... effect , I grieve only at the cause . ' Piozzi Letters , i . 314. Mrs. Thrale on May 3 wrote : - ' Baretti said you would be very angry , because this dreadful event made us put off our Italian journey , but I knew you better . Who ...
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... effect would be the same ' . ' ' Goldsmith ( he said ) , referred every thing to vanity ; his virtues , and his vices too , were from that motive . He was not a social man . He never exchanged mind with you . ' We spent the evening at ...
... effect would be the same ' . ' ' Goldsmith ( he said ) , referred every thing to vanity ; his virtues , and his vices too , were from that motive . He was not a social man . He never exchanged mind with you . ' We spent the evening at ...
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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?