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Pagina 37
... less able and equally un- scrupulous . The opposition could reward its eulogists with little more than promises and caresses . St. James would give nothing , Leicester - house had nothing to give . The The Thus at the time when Johnson ...
... less able and equally un- scrupulous . The opposition could reward its eulogists with little more than promises and caresses . St. James would give nothing , Leicester - house had nothing to give . The The Thus at the time when Johnson ...
Pagina 38
... less ruinous than the blanks . If good fortune came it came in such a manner that it was almost certain to be abused . After months of starvation and de- spair , a full third night , or a well - received dedication , filled the pocket ...
... less ruinous than the blanks . If good fortune came it came in such a manner that it was almost certain to be abused . After months of starvation and de- spair , a full third night , or a well - received dedication , filled the pocket ...
Pagina 43
... less likely to be imposed upon by fallacies in argument , or by exaggerated statements of fact . But , if , while he was beating down sophisms , and exposing false testimony , some childish prejudices , such as would excite laughter in ...
... less likely to be imposed upon by fallacies in argument , or by exaggerated statements of fact . But , if , while he was beating down sophisms , and exposing false testimony , some childish prejudices , such as would excite laughter in ...
Pagina 45
... less bunns ! Nobody spoke more contemptuously of the cant of pa- triotism . Nobody saw more clearly the error of those who represented liberty , not as a means , but as an end ; and who proposed to themselves , as the object of their ...
... less bunns ! Nobody spoke more contemptuously of the cant of pa- triotism . Nobody saw more clearly the error of those who represented liberty , not as a means , but as an end ; and who proposed to themselves , as the object of their ...
Pagina 50
... less va- luable than Johnson's bookcase in Bolt Court . But the Athenian might pass every morning in conversation with Socrates , and might hear Pericles speak four or five times every month . He saw the plays of Sophocles and Aristo ...
... less va- luable than Johnson's bookcase in Bolt Court . But the Athenian might pass every morning in conversation with Socrates , and might hear Pericles speak four or five times every month . He saw the plays of Sophocles and Aristo ...
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Pagina 45 - Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years * ; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
Pagina 169 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Pagina 411 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Pagina 165 - Forgiveness to the injured does belong; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.
Pagina 53 - This incident is recorded in the Journey as follows : " Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.
Pagina 215 - He was, unless we have formed a very erroneous judgment of his character, the most eccentric, the most artificial, the most fastidious, the most capricious of men. His mind was a bundle of inconsistent whims and affectations. His features were covered by mask within mask. When the outer disguise of obvious affectation was removed, you were still as far as ever from seeing the real man.
Pagina 349 - England's high Chancellor, the destined heir, In his soft cradle , to his father's chair, Whose even thread the Fates spin round and full Out of their choicest and their whitest wool.
Pagina 32 - But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer. Without all the qualities which made him the jest and the torment of those among whom he lived, without the officiousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toad-eating, the insensibility to all reproof, he never could have produced so excellent a book.
Pagina 297 - ... which we hold with the highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero. No...
Pagina 46 - I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. Sir, the danger of the abuse of power is nothing to a private man. What Frenchman is prevented passing his life as he pleases?' SIR ADAM: 'But, sir, in the British constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the Crown.