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Pagina 17
... took down Ogden's Sermons on Prayer , on which I set a very high value , having been much edified by them , and he retired with them to his room . He did not stay long , but soon joined us in the drawing room . I presented to him . Mr ...
... took down Ogden's Sermons on Prayer , on which I set a very high value , having been much edified by them , and he retired with them to his room . He did not stay long , but soon joined us in the drawing room . I presented to him . Mr ...
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... took against our American brethren , when , in his own name , he threw among his enthusiastick flock , the very individual combustibles of Dr. Johnson's “ Taxation no Tyranny ; " and after the intolerant spirit which he manifested ...
... took against our American brethren , when , in his own name , he threw among his enthusiastick flock , the very individual combustibles of Dr. Johnson's “ Taxation no Tyranny ; " and after the intolerant spirit which he manifested ...
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... took a cursory view , and then to what is called the Laigh ( or under ) Parliament - House , where the records of Scotland , which has a univer- sal security by register , are deposited , till the great Register Office be finished . I ...
... took a cursory view , and then to what is called the Laigh ( or under ) Parliament - House , where the records of Scotland , which has a univer- sal security by register , are deposited , till the great Register Office be finished . I ...
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... took this line is , " But then rose up all Edinburgh , " They rose up by thousands three ; " A cowardly Scot came John behind , " And ran him through the fair body ! " dinner he told us of a curious conversation between the TO THE ...
... took this line is , " But then rose up all Edinburgh , " They rose up by thousands three ; " A cowardly Scot came John behind , " And ran him through the fair body ! " dinner he told us of a curious conversation between the TO THE ...
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... took the liberty to ask him , if Swift had personally offended him , and he told me he had not . He said to - day , " Swift is clear , but he is shallow . In coarse humour , he is inferior to Arbuthnot ; in delicate humour , he is ...
... took the liberty to ask him , if Swift had personally offended him , and he told me he had not . He said to - day , " Swift is clear , but he is shallow . In coarse humour , he is inferior to Arbuthnot ; in delicate humour , he is ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 103 - Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Pagina 357 - Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms...
Pagina 18 - Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.
Pagina 26 - 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 200 - The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth: they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation ;" — he had pronounced a message of inestimable importance, and well worthy of that splendid apparatus of prophecy and miracles with which his mission was introduced, and attested ; a message in which the wisest of mankind would rejoice to find an answer to their doubts, and...
Pagina 87 - Johnson, upon all occasions, expressed his approbation of enforcing instruction by means of the rod. "I would rather [said he] have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them learn, than tell a child, if you do thus, or thus, you will be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of superiority, you lay the...
Pagina 105 - Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. All at her work the village maiden sings ; Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around Revolves the sad vicissitude of things.
Pagina 403 - I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects , and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England' !' This unexpected and pointed sally produced a roar of applause.
Pagina 129 - No, sir. It would be called so in a book ; and when a man comes to look at it, he sees it is not so. It is indeed pointed at the top; but one side of it is larger than the other.
Pagina 244 - M'Pherson's Ossian to be more like the original than Pope's Homer. JOHNSON. " Well, sir, this is just what I always maintained. He has found names, and stories, and phrases, nay passages in old songs, and with them has blended his own compositions, and so made what he gives to the world as the translation of an ancient poem...