The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland ... [and 39 others], 1787 - 602 sivua |
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Sivu 3
... favour the pretenfi- ons of the exiled family , and that though a very honest and fenfible man , he , like many others inhabiting the county of Stafford , was a Jacobite . It may farther be fuppofed , that he was poffeffed of fome ...
... favour the pretenfi- ons of the exiled family , and that though a very honest and fenfible man , he , like many others inhabiting the county of Stafford , was a Jacobite . It may farther be fuppofed , that he was poffeffed of fome ...
Sivu 11
... favour of a mi- nor , and Johnson became the pupil of Mr. Adams , a perfon of far fuperior endowments , who afterwards at- tained a doctor's degree , and is at this time head of his college , Encouraged , by a change fo propitious to ...
... favour of a mi- nor , and Johnson became the pupil of Mr. Adams , a perfon of far fuperior endowments , who afterwards at- tained a doctor's degree , and is at this time head of his college , Encouraged , by a change fo propitious to ...
Sivu 23
... favoured more of good policy than of religi- on , became a convert to the church of Rome : many of his fubjects had followed his example ; and the miffi- onaries already in the country were in want of co - ad- jutors to extend their ...
... favoured more of good policy than of religi- on , became a convert to the church of Rome : many of his fubjects had followed his example ; and the miffi- onaries already in the country were in want of co - ad- jutors to extend their ...
Sivu 39
... favour of yours , and am extremely obliged to you ; but cannot fay , I had a greater < affection for you upon it , than I had before , being long fince fo much endeared to you , as well by an t early friendship , as by your many ...
... favour of yours , and am extremely obliged to you ; but cannot fay , I had a greater < affection for you upon it , than I had before , being long fince fo much endeared to you , as well by an t early friendship , as by your many ...
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... favour , confidering the reputation of the Annotator . < C Be pleased to favour me with a speedy answer , if you are not willing to engage in this fcheme ; and appoint me a day to wait on you , if you are . ' I am , Sir , your humble ...
... favour , confidering the reputation of the Annotator . < C Be pleased to favour me with a speedy answer , if you are not willing to engage in this fcheme ; and appoint me a day to wait on you , if you are . ' I am , Sir , your humble ...
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Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 62 - ... but, unfortunately, he is not capable of receiving their bounty, which would make him happy for life...
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.