The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, 第 8 巻 |
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A man can have no reason to repine that he is not an angel ; nor a horse that he
is not a man ; much less , that in their several stations they possess not the
faculties of another ; for this would be an insufferable misfortune . " This doctrine
of the ...
A man can have no reason to repine that he is not an angel ; nor a horse that he
is not a man ; much less , that in their several stations they possess not the
faculties of another ; for this would be an insufferable misfortune . " This doctrine
of the ...
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So that , as far as we can judge , there may be room in the vacuity between any
two steps of the scale , or between any two points of the cone of being , for infinite
exertion of infinite power . Thus it appears how little reason those who repose ...
So that , as far as we can judge , there may be room in the vacuity between any
two steps of the scale , or between any two points of the cone of being , for infinite
exertion of infinite power . Thus it appears how little reason those who repose ...
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The only reason why we should contemplate Evil is , that we may bear it better ;
and I am afraid nothing is much more placidly endured , for the sake of making
others sport . The first pages of the fourth Letter are such as incline me both to
hope ...
The only reason why we should contemplate Evil is , that we may bear it better ;
and I am afraid nothing is much more placidly endured , for the sake of making
others sport . The first pages of the fourth Letter are such as incline me both to
hope ...
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It is not always that there is a strong reason for a great event . Obstinacy and
flexibility , malignity and kindness , give place alternately to each other , and the
reason of these vicissi . tudes , however important may be the consequences ,
often ...
It is not always that there is a strong reason for a great event . Obstinacy and
flexibility , malignity and kindness , give place alternately to each other , and the
reason of these vicissi . tudes , however important may be the consequences ,
often ...
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They therefore all attend the worship of the kirk , as often as a visit from their
minister , or the practicability of travelling , gives them an opportunity ; nor have
they any reason to complain of insufficient pastors ; for I saw not one in the
islands ...
They therefore all attend the worship of the kirk , as often as a visit from their
minister , or the practicability of travelling , gives them an opportunity ; nor have
they any reason to complain of insufficient pastors ; for I saw not one in the
islands ...
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162 ページ - That by such emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are, entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
164 ページ - British parliament, as are, bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation, internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America, without their consent.
188 ページ - His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
243 ページ - These, however, are deficiencies in story, for which no man is now to be censured. It were enough, if what there is yet opportunity of examining were accurately inspected, and justly represented; but such is the laxity of Highland conversation, that the inquirer is kept in continual suspense, and by a kind of intellectual retrogradation, knows less as he hears more.
132 ページ - To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
162 ページ - 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.
260 ページ - Raasay has little that can detain a traveller, except the laird and his family ; but their power wants no auxiliaries. Such a seat of hospitality, amidst the winds and waters, fills the imagination with a delightful contrariety of images. Without is the rough ocean and the rocky land, the beating billows and the howling storm : within is plenty and elegance, beauty and gaiety, the song and the dance.
121 ページ - ... outrage, for rage of defamation and audacity of falsehood. The Supporters of the Bill of Rights feel no niceties of composition, nor dexterities of sophistry; their faculties are better proportioned to the bawl of Bellas, or barbarity of Beckford; but they are told that Junius is on their side, and they are therefore sure that Junius is infallible. Those who know not whither he would lead them, resolve to follow him; and those who cannot find his meaning, hope he means rebellion.
192 ページ - We found, that by the interposition of some invisible friend, lodgings had been provided for us at the house of one of the professors, whose easy civility quickly made us forget that we were strangers; and in the whole time of our stay we were gratified by every mode of kindness, and entertained with all the elegance of lettered hospitality.
250 ページ - There was perhaps never any change of national manners so quick, so great, and so general, as that which has operated in the Highlands, by the last conquest, and the subsequent laws. We came thither too late to see what we expected, a people of peculiar appearance, and a system of antiquated life.