The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland, 1787 - 605 sider |
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... these yield- ed but small advantage to the mere venders of them : there were then no fuch publications for the mere amufement of young readers or idle perfons as the prefs now daily fends forth ; nor had nor had any bookfeller ...
... these yield- ed but small advantage to the mere venders of them : there were then no fuch publications for the mere amufement of young readers or idle perfons as the prefs now daily fends forth ; nor had nor had any bookfeller ...
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... These , and other fuch levities , marked his behaviour for a short time after his coming to college ; but he foon convinced those about him , that he came thither for other purposes than to make sport either for him- self or them . His ...
... These , and other fuch levities , marked his behaviour for a short time after his coming to college ; but he foon convinced those about him , that he came thither for other purposes than to make sport either for him- self or them . His ...
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John Hawkins. checked these wishes , and left him to seek the means of a future fubfiftence . If nature could be faid to have pointed out a profeffion for him , that of the bar feems to have been it in that faculty , his acuteness and pe ...
John Hawkins. checked these wishes , and left him to seek the means of a future fubfiftence . If nature could be faid to have pointed out a profeffion for him , that of the bar feems to have been it in that faculty , his acuteness and pe ...
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... these words , 1729 Dec. S. J. Oxonio rediit , ' he left that place , the reason whereof , was a failure of pecuniary fupplies from his father ; but meeting with another fource , the bounty , as it is fuppofed , of some one or more of ...
... these words , 1729 Dec. S. J. Oxonio rediit , ' he left that place , the reason whereof , was a failure of pecuniary fupplies from his father ; but meeting with another fource , the bounty , as it is fuppofed , of some one or more of ...
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... these new catholics , and used our utmost endeavours to make them abjure their errors . When we were weary with fpeaking , we placed in ranks those who were fuffi- ciently instructed , and paffing through them with great veffels of ...
... these new catholics , and used our utmost endeavours to make them abjure their errors . When we were weary with fpeaking , we placed in ranks those who were fuffi- ciently instructed , and paffing through them with great veffels of ...
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Side 550 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Side 484 - I was born in the eighth climate, but seem to be framed and constellated unto all. I am no plant that will not prosper out of a garden. All places, all airs, make unto me one country ; I am in England everywhere, and under any meridian.
Side 198 - For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die...
Side 289 - I have familiarized the terms of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas, but have rarely admitted any word not authorized by former writers...
Side 360 - I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.
Side 342 - Have put their whole drama and epick to flight ; In satires, epistles, and odes, would they cope, Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French *, and will beat forty more...
Side 62 - ... but, unfortunately, he is not capable of receiving their bounty, which would make him happy for life...
Side 126 - Excursions of fancy, and flights of oratory, are indeed, pardonable in young men, but in no other; and it would surely contribute more, even to the purpose for which some gentlemen appear to speak, (that of depreciating the conduct of the...
Side 347 - Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Side 492 - That our ancestors, who first settled these colonies, were at the time of their emigration from the mother country, entitled to all the rights, liberties, and immunities of free and natural-born subjects, within the realm of England.