Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... keep up all his former connections . Then , Sir , those who knew him formerly upon a level with themselves , may think that they ought still to be treated as on a level , which cannot be ; and an acquaintance in a former situation may ...
... keep up all his former connections . Then , Sir , those who knew him formerly upon a level with themselves , may think that they ought still to be treated as on a level , which cannot be ; and an acquaintance in a former situation may ...
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... Keep yourself busy , ' wrote Johnson to Mrs. Thrale , and you will in time grow cheerful . New prospects may open , and new enjoyments may come within your reach . ' Piozzi Letters , i . 315 . Aetat . 67. ] The enthusiasm of curiosity ...
... Keep yourself busy , ' wrote Johnson to Mrs. Thrale , and you will in time grow cheerful . New prospects may open , and new enjoyments may come within your reach . ' Piozzi Letters , i . 315 . Aetat . 67. ] The enthusiasm of curiosity ...
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... keeps his temper ; the Stoick , who has something positive to preserve , grows angry ' . controverts an opinion which you sequence of the uneasiness which tering of soldiers . By the Mutiny Act the innkeeper was required to find each ...
... keeps his temper ; the Stoick , who has something positive to preserve , grows angry ' . controverts an opinion which you sequence of the uneasiness which tering of soldiers . By the Mutiny Act the innkeeper was required to find each ...
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... keep a man decently as a scholar . We do not allow our fellows to marry , because we 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 ...
... keep a man decently as a scholar . We do not allow our fellows to marry , because we 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 ...
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... keep a man of eminent learning with them for his life . In the foreign Universities a professorship is a high thing . It is as much almost as a man can make by his learning ; and therefore we find the most learned men abroad are in the ...
... keep a man of eminent learning with them for his life . In the foreign Universities a professorship is a high thing . It is as much almost as a man can make by his learning ; and therefore we find the most learned men abroad are in the ...
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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?