The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.J. Buckland [and 40 others], 1787 |
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Side 25
... serve , or in other words become slaves to the Turks : --- ' a message , ' says Lobo , which filled us with surprise ; it having ، never been known that one of these lords had ever abandoned any whom he had taken under his protection ...
... serve , or in other words become slaves to the Turks : --- ' a message , ' says Lobo , which filled us with surprise ; it having ، never been known that one of these lords had ever abandoned any whom he had taken under his protection ...
Side 29
... serve to refute an assertion in an anonymous account of Johnson's life , that he was in- troduced to the acquaintance of Cave by Savage . 9 litical litical pamphlets ; but of a work that should com- DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 29 To this ...
... serve to refute an assertion in an anonymous account of Johnson's life , that he was in- troduced to the acquaintance of Cave by Savage . 9 litical litical pamphlets ; but of a work that should com- DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 29 To this ...
Side 37
... serve the purpose of future in- structors of youth , I here insert it : When the introduction or formation of nouns and verbs is perfectly mastered , the pupils learn Corderius , by Mr. Clarke ; beginning at the same time to translate ...
... serve the purpose of future in- structors of youth , I here insert it : When the introduction or formation of nouns and verbs is perfectly mastered , the pupils learn Corderius , by Mr. Clarke ; beginning at the same time to translate ...
Side 63
... serve the ، poor man , without my adding any more to the trou- ' ble I have already given you , than affuring you that ' I am , with great truth , • Sir , ' Your faithful humble servant , Trentham , August 1 , 1737 . GOWER . ' If ever ...
... serve the ، poor man , without my adding any more to the trou- ' ble I have already given you , than affuring you that ' I am , with great truth , • Sir , ' Your faithful humble servant , Trentham , August 1 , 1737 . GOWER . ' If ever ...
Side 109
... served that no man is wife , but as you take into < confideration the weakness of another ; a maxim • more eminently true of political wisdom , which Th • consists very often only in discovering designs which. * Vienna . confifts ...
... served that no man is wife , but as you take into < confideration the weakness of another ; a maxim • more eminently true of political wisdom , which Th • consists very often only in discovering designs which. * Vienna . confifts ...
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Side 350 - 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 127 - The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Side 490 - ... some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole.
Side 521 - ... too late to praise. If want of skill or want of care appear, Forbear to hiss; — the poet cannot hear. By all, like him, must praise and blame be found, At last a fleeting gleam, or empty sound.
Side 438 - Clerkenwell, where the body is deposited, and give a token of her presence there, by a knock upon her coffin ; it was therefore determined to make this trial of the existence or veracity of the supposed spirit.
Side 363 - 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 186 - I have received two letters from you, one written in Latin, the other in French ; which I take in good part, and will you to exercise that practice of learning often : for that will stand you in most stead, in that profession of life that you are born to live in. And...
Side 198 - For years the pow'r of tragedy declin'd; From bard to bard the frigid caution crept, Till Declamation roar'd whilst Passion slept; Yet still did Virtue deign the stage to tread, Philosophy remain'd though Nature fled.
Side 292 - 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 287 - The place appointed was the Devil Tavern, and there, about the hour of eight, Mrs. Lenox and her husband, and a lady of her acquaintance, still [1785] living, as also the club, and friends to the number of near twenty, assembled.