The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 2Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... Church library was the largest , he answered , " All Souls library is the largest we have , except the Bodleian . " " Aye , " said the king , " that is the publick library . " His majesty enquired if he was then writing any thing . He ...
... Church library was the largest , he answered , " All Souls library is the largest we have , except the Bodleian . " " Aye , " said the king , " that is the publick library . " His majesty enquired if he was then writing any thing . He ...
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... church . This the king said he was sorry to hear . The conversation next turned on the Philosophical Transactions , when Johnson observed , that they had now a better method of arranging their materials than formerly . " Aye , " said ...
... church . This the king said he was sorry to hear . The conversation next turned on the Philosophical Transactions , when Johnson observed , that they had now a better method of arranging their materials than formerly . " Aye , " said ...
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... church of England , maintaining the future life of brutes , by an explication of certain parts of the scriptures , was men- tioned , and the doctrine insisted on by a gentleman who seemed fond of curious speculation . Johnson , who did ...
... church of England , maintaining the future life of brutes , by an explication of certain parts of the scriptures , was men- tioned , and the doctrine insisted on by a gentleman who seemed fond of curious speculation . Johnson , who did ...
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... church - of - England - man would be so prompt in quoting Maupertuis , who , I am sorry to think , stands in the list of those unfortunate mistaken men who call themselves esprits forts . I have , however , a high respect for that ...
... church - of - England - man would be so prompt in quoting Maupertuis , who , I am sorry to think , stands in the list of those unfortunate mistaken men who call themselves esprits forts . I have , however , a high respect for that ...
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... pleasant for study , as being more spacious and airy ; he replied , Sir , if a man has a mind to prance , he must study at Christ Church and All Souls . " " - BosWELL . • an hour of leisure , I will drink tea with 56 [ 1769 . THE LIFE OF.
... pleasant for study , as being more spacious and airy ; he replied , Sir , if a man has a mind to prance , he must study at Christ Church and All Souls . " " - BosWELL . • an hour of leisure , I will drink tea with 56 [ 1769 . THE LIFE OF.
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Page 69 - Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Page 317 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Page 41 - ... supposing your arguments to be weak and inconclusive. But sir, that is not enough. An argument which does not convince yourself, may convince the judge to whom you urge it ; and if it does convince him, why then, sir, you are wrong and he is right. It is his business to judge ; and you are not to be confident in your own opinion that a cause is bad, but to say all you can for your client, and then hear the judge's opinion.
Page 5 - Though very poor, may still be very blest ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky.
Page 221 - One evening, in a circle of wits, he found fault with me for talking of Johnson as -entitled to the honour of unquestionable superiority. " Sir," said he, "you are for making a monarchy of what should be a republic.
Page 395 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Page 33 - Johnson said, he thought he had already done his part as a writer. " I should have thought so too...
Page 35 - He added, therefore, that Dr. Hill was, notwithstanding, a very curious observer ; and if he would have been contented to tell the world no more than he knew, he might have been a very considerable man, and needed not to have recourse to such mean expedients to raise his reputation.
Page 128 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Page 181 - ... else that denoted his imbecility. I as much believe that he wrote it, as if I had seen him do it. Sir, had he shown it to any one friend, he would not have been allowed to publish it. He has, indeed, done it very well; but it is a foolish thing well done. I suppose he has been so much elated with the success of his new comedy, that he has thought every thing that concerned him must be of importance to the public.