The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland ... [and 39 others], 1787 - 602 sivua |
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Sivu 94
... interest engines for extinguishing fires , had obtained a patent for one in particular which conjoined in one and the fame machine the active powers of both the hands and feet : an ignorant and im- pudent pretender invaded his right ...
... interest engines for extinguishing fires , had obtained a patent for one in particular which conjoined in one and the fame machine the active powers of both the hands and feet : an ignorant and im- pudent pretender invaded his right ...
Sivu 95
... interest not to avail himself . He therefore de- termined to gratify his readers with as much of this kind of intelligence as he could procure and it was fafe to communicate : his refolution was to frequent the two houfes whenever an ...
... interest not to avail himself . He therefore de- termined to gratify his readers with as much of this kind of intelligence as he could procure and it was fafe to communicate : his refolution was to frequent the two houfes whenever an ...
Sivu 110
... interest is contrary to our own , have been at any time ferved by honest and wife men , there was a time when our • ministers could act only by conjecture , and might ⚫ be mistaken without a crime . If it was always in our power to ...
... interest is contrary to our own , have been at any time ferved by honest and wife men , there was a time when our • ministers could act only by conjecture , and might ⚫ be mistaken without a crime . If it was always in our power to ...
Sivu 131
... interests of the kingdom . The question whether he was in principle an enemy to his country or not , will poffibly be decided by the following fact , which the best authority warrants me in relating : When he was feized with the ...
... interests of the kingdom . The question whether he was in principle an enemy to his country or not , will poffibly be decided by the following fact , which the best authority warrants me in relating : When he was feized with the ...
Sivu 161
... interests of it , he wrote a periodical paper , and a voluminous hiftory of England , fraught with such principles as he was required to diffeminate . This man , in a pamphlet intitled ' The case of authors by profeffion , ' has ...
... interests of it , he wrote a periodical paper , and a voluminous hiftory of England , fraught with such principles as he was required to diffeminate . This man , in a pamphlet intitled ' The case of authors by profeffion , ' has ...
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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.