Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. JohnsonJohn Wilson Croker Carey and Hart, 1842 - 529 ページ |
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... learned from his uncle Andrew , * I believe ; and I have heard him des- cant upon the age when people were received , and when rejected , in the schools once held for that brutal amuse- ment , much to the admiration of those who had no ...
... learned from his uncle Andrew , * I believe ; and I have heard him des- cant upon the age when people were received , and when rejected , in the schools once held for that brutal amuse- ment , much to the admiration of those who had no ...
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... learned to read of his mother and her old maid Catherine , in whose lap he well remembered sitting while she explained to him the story of St. George and the Dragon . The recollection of such reading as had * Cornelius Ford , according ...
... learned to read of his mother and her old maid Catherine , in whose lap he well remembered sitting while she explained to him the story of St. George and the Dragon . The recollection of such reading as had * Cornelius Ford , according ...
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... learned was , however , so certainly his opinion , that I have heard him say , how education had been often compared to agriculture , yet that it resembled it chiefly in this : " that if nothing is sown , no crop , " says he , can be ...
... learned was , however , so certainly his opinion , that I have heard him say , how education had been often compared to agriculture , yet that it resembled it chiefly in this : " that if nothing is sown , no crop , " says he , can be ...
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... learned body wanted loyalty : But books to Cambrige gave , as , well discerning , That that right loyal body wanted learning . " Which , says Sir William , might well be answered thus : - " The king to Oxford sent his troop of horse ...
... learned body wanted loyalty : But books to Cambrige gave , as , well discerning , That that right loyal body wanted learning . " Which , says Sir William , might well be answered thus : - " The king to Oxford sent his troop of horse ...
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... learned , " said he , " by hunting , to perceive that it is no diversion at all , nor ever takes a man out of himself for a moment : the dogs have less sagacity than I could have prevailed on myself to suppose ; and the gentlemen often ...
... learned , " said he , " by hunting , to perceive that it is no diversion at all , nor ever takes a man out of himself for a moment : the dogs have less sagacity than I could have prevailed on myself to suppose ; and the gentlemen often ...
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468 ページ - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
391 ページ - In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain...
441 ページ - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
376 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...
468 ページ - They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord...
392 ページ - DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac, "happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
387 ページ - A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. He that willingly suffers the corrosions of inveterate hatred, and gives up his days and nights to the gloom of malice and perturbations of stratagem, cannot surely be said to consult his ease.
32 ページ - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
26 ページ - Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
394 ページ - The force of his comic scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are communicable to all times and to all places; they are natural, and therefore durable...