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Pagina vii
... told the editor that " his work had , at least , not come too soon . ” Mr. Boswell's delicacy is termed capricious , be- cause he is on some occasions candid even to indis- cretion , and on others unaccountably mysterious . In the ...
... told the editor that " his work had , at least , not come too soon . ” Mr. Boswell's delicacy is termed capricious , be- cause he is on some occasions candid even to indis- cretion , and on others unaccountably mysterious . In the ...
Pagina ix
... told by the Bishop of Ferns . The late Lord Avonmore giving evidence relative to certain certificates of degrees in the University of Dublin , called them ( as they are commonly called ) " Testimoniums . " As the clerk was writing down ...
... told by the Bishop of Ferns . The late Lord Avonmore giving evidence relative to certain certificates of degrees in the University of Dublin , called them ( as they are commonly called ) " Testimoniums . " As the clerk was writing down ...
Pagina xxix
... told , by no means satis- fied1 with the life he led , nor his eldest son with the kind of reputation he attained ; neither liked to hear of his connexion even with Paoli or Johnson ; and both would have been better pleased if he had ...
... told , by no means satis- fied1 with the life he led , nor his eldest son with the kind of reputation he attained ; neither liked to hear of his connexion even with Paoli or Johnson ; and both would have been better pleased if he had ...
Pagina xxxix
... told . ” Such a sanction to my faculty of giving a just re- presentation of Dr. Johnson I could not conceal . Nor will I suppress my satisfaction in the consciousness , that by recording so considerable a portion of the wisdom and wit ...
... told . ” Such a sanction to my faculty of giving a just re- presentation of Dr. Johnson I could not conceal . Nor will I suppress my satisfaction in the consciousness , that by recording so considerable a portion of the wisdom and wit ...
Pagina 5
... told her the worst of ine ; that I am of mean extraction ; that I have no money ; and that I have had an uncle hanged . ' She replied , that she valued no one more or less for his descent ; that she had no more money than myself ; and ...
... told her the worst of ine ; that I am of mean extraction ; that I have no money ; and that I have had an uncle hanged . ' She replied , that she valued no one more or less for his descent ; that she had no more money than myself ; and ...
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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?