The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland, 1787 - 605 sivua |
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... hope of preferment by the want of a vice , namely , hypocrify . It was fuppofed that the parfon in Hogarth's modern midnight converfation , was intended to reprefent him in his hour of feftivity , four in the morning . to her fufferings ...
... hope of preferment by the want of a vice , namely , hypocrify . It was fuppofed that the parfon in Hogarth's modern midnight converfation , was intended to reprefent him in his hour of feftivity , four in the morning . to her fufferings ...
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John Hawkins. C ⚫ bufinefs , by which , perhaps , he might hope to keep his afcendancy . He was uncommonly inquifitive , and his memory fo tenacious , that whatever he read ' or heard he never forgot . I remember rehearsing ⚫ to him ...
John Hawkins. C ⚫ bufinefs , by which , perhaps , he might hope to keep his afcendancy . He was uncommonly inquifitive , and his memory fo tenacious , that whatever he read ' or heard he never forgot . I remember rehearsing ⚫ to him ...
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... hope of mending the fituation of the inferior clergy . An increafe of income would raise them to a condition of employing fubftitutes whom mere ne- ceffity would compel to the performance of their duty , and thefe would have the fame ...
... hope of mending the fituation of the inferior clergy . An increafe of income would raise them to a condition of employing fubftitutes whom mere ne- ceffity would compel to the performance of their duty , and thefe would have the fame ...
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... hope for till the death of my mother , ( which I pray may be late ) , that is to fay , twenty pounds ; fo that I have my fortune to make , and care must be taken , that in the mean time , the powers of my mind may not grow languid ...
... hope for till the death of my mother , ( which I pray may be late ) , that is to fay , twenty pounds ; fo that I have my fortune to make , and care must be taken , that in the mean time , the powers of my mind may not grow languid ...
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... Hope . But labour and patience produced in time , a hope that the miffion would not be fruitlefs : the number of their profelytes was , at one period , fo great , that the corporal strength of the fathers was exhaufted in the ...
... Hope . But labour and patience produced in time , a hope that the miffion would not be fruitlefs : the number of their profelytes was , at one period , fo great , that the corporal strength of the fathers was exhaufted in the ...
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Sivu 556 - 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 fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Sivu 594 - Mr. Hoole, his son, each a book at their election, to keep as a token of remembrance.
Sivu 291 - When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification, I have familiarized the terms of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas, but have rarely admitted any word not authorized by former writers...
Sivu 563 - ... with a look that cut me to the heart, told me that he had the prospect of death before him, and that he dreaded to meet his Saviour.
Sivu 198 - The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, 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...
Sivu 127 - ... which neither hope nor fear shall influence me to suppress. I will not sit unconcerned while my liberty is invaded, nor look in silence upon public robbery.
Sivu 488 - 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.
Sivu 286 - 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.
Sivu 257 - Johnson made it a rule to talk his best, but that on many subjects he was not uniform in his opinions, contending as often for victory as for truth : at one time good, at another evil was predominant in the moral constitution of the world. Upon one occasion, he would deplore the nonobservance of Good-Friday, and on another deny, that among us of the present age there is any decline of public worship.
Sivu 187 - Well (my little Philip) this is enough for me, and too much I fear for you. But, if I shall find that this light meal of digestion nourish anything the weak stomach of your young capacity, I will, as I find the same grow stronger, feed it with tougher food. Your loving Father, so long as you live in the fear of God, H. SYDNEY...