The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...Harper & Brothers, 1840 |
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... misery , must endeavour to obviate the danger . My considerations shall , on this occasion , be turned on such as are burdensome to themselves merely because they want subjects for reflection , and to whom the volume of nature is thrown ...
... misery , must endeavour to obviate the danger . My considerations shall , on this occasion , be turned on such as are burdensome to themselves merely because they want subjects for reflection , and to whom the volume of nature is thrown ...
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... misery . But these can only influence our conduct as they gain our attention , which the business or diversions of the world are always call- ing off by contrary attractions . The great art , therefore , of piety , and the end for which ...
... misery . But these can only influence our conduct as they gain our attention , which the business or diversions of the world are always call- ing off by contrary attractions . The great art , therefore , of piety , and the end for which ...
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... misery but its loss ; every other satisfaction which the bounty of Provi- dence has scattered over life , is neglected as incon- siderable in comparison of the great object which we have placed before us , and is thrown from us as ...
... misery but its loss ; every other satisfaction which the bounty of Provi- dence has scattered over life , is neglected as incon- siderable in comparison of the great object which we have placed before us , and is thrown from us as ...
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... misery , and who can please themselves with the enjoyment of that wealth which they never permit others to partake . From any censures of the world or reproaches of his conscience , he has an appeal to action and to knowledge : and ...
... misery , and who can please themselves with the enjoyment of that wealth which they never permit others to partake . From any censures of the world or reproaches of his conscience , he has an appeal to action and to knowledge : and ...
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... - rence of unhappy incidents should never be suffered to disturb us before they happen ; because , if the breast be once laid open to the dread of mere pos . sibilities of misery , life must be given a prey 166 ESSAYS , ETC.
... - rence of unhappy incidents should never be suffered to disturb us before they happen ; because , if the breast be once laid open to the dread of mere pos . sibilities of misery , life must be given a prey 166 ESSAYS , ETC.
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35 ページ - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
242 ページ - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.
28 ページ - Johnson: one, in particular, praised his impartiality ; observing, that he dealt out reason and eloquence, with an equal hand to both parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it.
69 ページ - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
242 ページ - All joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves.
259 ページ - We then relax our vigour, and resolve no longer to be terrified with crimes at a distance, but rely upon our own constancy, and venture to approach what we resolve never to touch.
245 ページ - ... more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.
183 ページ - ... to our happiness. There is certainly no greater felicity, than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed ; to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
272 ページ - To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
100 ページ - ... to obviate ; for such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labour and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other ; such are the changes that keep the mind in action ; we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated ; we desire something else, and begin a new pursuit.