The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to the Hebrides. With additions and notes, by J.W. Croker, Volume 21831 |
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Pagina 13
... natural equality of mankind . Men , on the contrary , are born so very unequal in capacities and powers , mental and corporeal , that it requires laws and the institutions of civil society to bring them to a state of moral equality ...
... natural equality of mankind . Men , on the contrary , are born so very unequal in capacities and powers , mental and corporeal , that it requires laws and the institutions of civil society to bring them to a state of moral equality ...
Pagina 16
... nature , and is expected soon to attain civil greatness . I am grown greater too , for I have main- [ Mr. Langton's eldest sister . - Ed . ] 2 [ Mr. Burke came into parliament under the auspices of the Marquis of Rockingham , in the ...
... nature , and is expected soon to attain civil greatness . I am grown greater too , for I have main- [ Mr. Langton's eldest sister . - Ed . ] 2 [ Mr. Burke came into parliament under the auspices of the Marquis of Rockingham , in the ...
Pagina 33
... natural and delicate , and such as every body must approve ; and that , finally , in Heaven , Lady Hanmer , in the distribution of wives ( suam cuique ) , would be considered as his . Twenty years did not cool his brain . Just at the ...
... natural and delicate , and such as every body must approve ; and that , finally , in Heaven , Lady Hanmer , in the distribution of wives ( suam cuique ) , would be considered as his . Twenty years did not cool his brain . Just at the ...
Pagina 39
... nature and use of such works . The king asked him if it was well done now . Johnson answered , he had no reason to think that it was . The king then asked him if there were any other literary journals pub- lished in this kingdom ...
... nature and use of such works . The king asked him if it was well done now . Johnson answered , he had no reason to think that it was . The king then asked him if there were any other literary journals pub- lished in this kingdom ...
Pagina 41
... natural character prevailed . He sprung from the sofa , advanced to John- son , and in a kind of flutter , from imagining him- self in the situation which he had just been hearing described , exclaimed , " Well , you acquitted yourself ...
... natural character prevailed . He sprung from the sofa , advanced to John- son , and in a kind of flutter , from imagining him- self in the situation which he had just been hearing described , exclaimed , " Well , you acquitted yourself ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 126 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Pagina 257 - He the best player!" cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Pagina 268 - The teeming mother anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face: Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king.
Pagina 169 - I collated such copies as I could procure, and wished for more, but have not found the collectors of these rarities very communicative.
Pagina 243 - He was steady and inflexible in maintaining the obligations of religion and morality, both from a regard for the order of society, and from a veneration for the Great Source of all order ; correct, nay, stern in his taste ; hard to please, and easily offended ; impetuous and irritable in his temper, but of a most humane and benevolent heart...
Pagina 209 - Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale.
Pagina 12 - To omit for a year, or for a day, the most efficacious method of advancing Christianity, in compliance with any purposes that terminate on this side of the grave, is a crime of which I know not that the world has yet had an example, except in the practice of the planters of America, a race of mortals whom, I suppose, no other man wishes to resemble.
Pagina 161 - Road, and had carried down his books in two returned postchaises. He said he believed the farmer's family thought him an odd character, similar to that in which the Spectator appeared to his landlady and her children : he was the gentleman. Mr. Mickle, the translator of « The Lusiad,' and I went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards. He was not at home; but, having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals scrawled upon the wall...
Pagina 208 - Whether indeed we take him as a poet, — as a comic writer, — or as an historian, he stands in the first class." Boswell. " An historian ! my dear Sir, you surely will not rank his compilation of the Roman History, with the works of other historians of this age.
Pagina 91 - Why, Sir, it is a very harmless doctrine. They are of opinion that the generality of mankind are neither so obstinately wicked as to deserve everlasting punishment, nor so good as to merit being admitted into the society of blessed spirits ; and therefore that GOD is graciously pleased to allow of a middle state, where they may be purified by certain degrees of suffering. You sec, Sir, there is nothing unreasonable in this.