Life of Samuel JohnsonScott, Foresman, 1923 - 563 pagina's |
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Pagina 16
... sure of anything , if no doubt of it has ever crossed our minds . " And , we may add , the more positive we are in our words , the more evidence we give of our own uncertainty . Johnson's doubts were many . He had faith that God was ...
... sure of anything , if no doubt of it has ever crossed our minds . " And , we may add , the more positive we are in our words , the more evidence we give of our own uncertainty . Johnson's doubts were many . He had faith that God was ...
Pagina 28
... sure she could not miss it ; and I contrived that she should soon come up with me . When she did , I observed her to be in tears . " He now set up a private academy , 1 for which purpose he hired a large house , well situated near his ...
... sure she could not miss it ; and I contrived that she should soon come up with me . When she did , I observed her to be in tears . " He now set up a private academy , 1 for which purpose he hired a large house , well situated near his ...
Pagina 66
... sure that he had less enjoyment from it than I have . The truth , however , is that we judge of the happiness and misery of life differently at different times , according to the state of our changeable frame . I always remember a ...
... sure that he had less enjoyment from it than I have . The truth , however , is that we judge of the happiness and misery of life differently at different times , according to the state of our changeable frame . I always remember a ...
Pagina 67
... . You must , therefore , be enabled to discharge petty debts , that you may have leisure , with security , to struggle with the rest . Neither the great nor little debts disgrace you . I am sure you have my esteem for the courage with ...
... . You must , therefore , be enabled to discharge petty debts , that you may have leisure , with security , to struggle with the rest . Neither the great nor little debts disgrace you . I am sure you have my esteem for the courage with ...
Pagina 68
James Boswell Herbert Vaughan Abbott. sure you have my esteem for the courage with which you con- tracted them , and the spirit with which you endure them . I wish my esteem could be of more use . I have been invited , or have invited ...
James Boswell Herbert Vaughan Abbott. sure you have my esteem for the courage with which you con- tracted them , and the spirit with which you endure them . I wish my esteem could be of more use . I have been invited , or have invited ...
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acquaintance afterwards appeared April Ashbourne asked Beauclerk believe Bennet Langton better Birkbeck Hill Boswell's Brocklesby called character Chesterfield church consider conversation David Garrick DEAR SIR death Dictionary dined dinner drinking England English Fleet Street Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear Hebrides honor hope Horace Walpole human humor imagination James Boswell John Johnson kind King lady Langton laugh learned liberty Lichfield literary live London Lord Lord Chesterfield Lordship madam mankind manner mentioned mind morning nature never night observed occasion once opinion Pembroke College perhaps Piozzi pleased pleasure poet pounds praise Rambler recollect religion Samuel Johnson Scotch Scotland seemed servant Sir Joshua Reynolds soon Streatham suppose sure talk tell things thought Thrale tion told Topham Beauclerk truth Whig Wilkes William wine wish write wrote young