The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and additions to the first edition, 第 3 巻1816 |
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... minds are on the fret . On the contrary , he was willing to speak favourably of his own age ; and , indeed ... mind which I could not help ; an uneasy apprehension that my wife and children , who were at a great distance from ...
... minds are on the fret . On the contrary , he was willing to speak favourably of his own age ; and , indeed ... mind which I could not help ; an uneasy apprehension that my wife and children , who were at a great distance from ...
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... mind which is always jealous of appearing too compliant . * On Sunday , March 31 , I called on him , and shewed him as a curiosity which I had discovered , his " Translation of Lobo's Account of Abyssinia , " which Sir John Pringle had ...
... mind which is always jealous of appearing too compliant . * On Sunday , March 31 , I called on him , and shewed him as a curiosity which I had discovered , his " Translation of Lobo's Account of Abyssinia , " which Sir John Pringle had ...
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... mind of my uncle , Dr. Boswell's descrip- tion of him , " A robust genius , born to grapple with whole libraries . " I gave him an account of a conversation which had passed between me and Captain Cook , the day be- fore , at dinner at ...
... mind of my uncle , Dr. Boswell's descrip- tion of him , " A robust genius , born to grapple with whole libraries . " I gave him an account of a conversation which had passed between me and Captain Cook , the day be- fore , at dinner at ...
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... mind ; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves . We should knock him down first , and pity him afterwards . No , Sir , every man will dispute with great good humour upon a subject in which he is not interested ...
... mind ; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves . We should knock him down first , and pity him afterwards . No , Sir , every man will dispute with great good humour upon a subject in which he is not interested ...
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... mind : but the law does not 5 Dr. Goldsmith was dead before Mr. Maclaurin discovered the ludicrous errour . But Mr. Nourse , the bookseller , who was the proprietor of the work , upon being applied to by Sir John Pringle , agreed very ...
... mind : but the law does not 5 Dr. Goldsmith was dead before Mr. Maclaurin discovered the ludicrous errour . But Mr. Nourse , the bookseller , who was the proprietor of the work , upon being applied to by Sir John Pringle , agreed very ...
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196 ページ - Why, Sir, you \ find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. \ No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
318 ページ - ... to certainty, freedom ceases, because that cannot be certainly foreknown which is not certain at the time; but if it be certain at the time, it is a contradiction in terms to maintain that there can be afterwards any contingency dependent upon the exercise of will or any thing else." JOHNSON. " All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it.
398 ページ - ... perpetual jarring of those whom he charitably accommodated under his roof. He has sometimes suffered me to talk jocularly of his group of females, and call them his Seraglio. He thus mentions them, together with honest Levett, in one of his letters to Mrs. Thrale : " Williams hates every body ; Levett hates Desmoulins, and does not love Williams ; Desmoulins hates them both ; Poll loves none of them.
377 ページ - He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all.
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67 ページ - Provided, sir, I suppose, that the company which he is to have, is agreeable to you." JOHNSON. "What do you mean, sir? What do you take me for? Do you think I am so ignorant of the world as to imagine that I am to prescribe to a gentleman what company he is to have at his table?
66 ページ - Notwithstanding the high veneration which I entertained for Dr. Johnson, I was sensible that he was sometimes a little actuated by the spirit of contradiction, and by means of that I hoped I should gain my point. I was persuaded that if I had come upon him with a direct proposal, "Sir, will you dine in company with Jack Wilkes?" he would have flown into a passion, and would probably have answered, "Dine with Jack Wilkes, Sir ! I'd as soon dine with Jack Ketch.
332 ページ - I am a straggler. I may leave this town and go to Grand Cairo, without being missed here or observed there." EDWARDS. "Don't you eat supper, Sir?
32 ページ - Reviewers (said he) are not Deists ; but they are Christians with as little Christianity as may be ; and are for pulling down all establishments. The Critical Reviewers are for supporting the constitution, both in church and state. The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the books through ; but lay hold of a topick, and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly Reviewers are duller men, and are glad to read the books through.