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Pagina viii
... heard of except in these volumes . Yet these volumes must be read with im- perfect pleasure , without some knowledge of the history of those more than half forgotten persons . Facts , too , fade from memory as well as names ; and ...
... heard of except in these volumes . Yet these volumes must be read with im- perfect pleasure , without some knowledge of the history of those more than half forgotten persons . Facts , too , fade from memory as well as names ; and ...
Pagina xvii
... heard from another quarter that the original journals do not exist at Auchinleck : perhaps to this fact the silence of Sir James Boswell may be attributed . The manuscript of the TOUR was , it is known , fairly transcribed , and so ...
... heard from another quarter that the original journals do not exist at Auchinleck : perhaps to this fact the silence of Sir James Boswell may be attributed . The manuscript of the TOUR was , it is known , fairly transcribed , and so ...
Pagina xxi
... heard of . Some of the editor's friends have reproached him with want of due caution in having trusted this packet to the post , but he thinks un- justly . There is , perhaps , no individual now alive who has despatched and re- ceived ...
... heard of . Some of the editor's friends have reproached him with want of due caution in having trusted this packet to the post , but he thinks un- justly . There is , perhaps , no individual now alive who has despatched and re- ceived ...
Pagina xxix
... heard ) by some stiff , 1 See vol . iii . p . 78 , n . This feeling is less surprising in old Lord Auchin- leck than in Sir Alexander , who was himself a man of the world , clever , literary , and social . ED . provincial painter in a ...
... heard ) by some stiff , 1 See vol . iii . p . 78 , n . This feeling is less surprising in old Lord Auchin- leck than in Sir Alexander , who was himself a man of the world , clever , literary , and social . ED . provincial painter in a ...
Pagina 3
... heard his brother speak with P. 5 , 6 . pride and pleasure . The two brothers did not , how- ever , much delight in each other's company , being always rivals for their mother's fondness ; and many of the severe reflections on domestic ...
... heard his brother speak with P. 5 , 6 . pride and pleasure . The two brothers did not , how- ever , much delight in each other's company , being always rivals for their mother's fondness ; and many of the severe reflections on domestic ...
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Pagina 250 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Pagina 428 - I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill '." My next meeting...
Pagina 250 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help...
Pagina 280 - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Pagina 253 - Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom: 'This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!
Pagina 379 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
Pagina 338 - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned ;
Pagina 38 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.
Pagina 298 - ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE, FELL A MARTYR TO POLITICAL PERSECUTION, MARCH 14, IN THE YEAR, 1757 ; WHEN BRAVERY AND LOYALTY WERE INSUFFICIENT SECURITIES FOR THE LIFE AND HONOUR OF A NAVAL OFFICER.
Pagina 461 - I thus, Sir, showed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them; why not then have some people above them?