 | William Clark Russell - 1871 - 550 ページ
...to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else....not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it. "—BoswdFs " Life of Johnson" In the first rank of the elegant writers of Latin, among our English... | |
 | J. Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 508 ページ
...noxious to society. He insisted on peoplfc praying with him, and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as; with any one else. Another charge was that he did not love clean linen, and I have no passion for it." Poor Smart, whose distresses continued to the last, died within the rules of the Queen's Bench Prison... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 ページ
...to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was, that he did not love elean linen : and I have no passion for it.' Johnson continued : ' Mankind have a great aversion to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 ページ
...exercise as he used to have, for he digs in the garden. Indeed, before his confinement, he used for exercise to walk to the alehouse ; but he was carried...love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it." " Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labour ; but even supposing knowledge to be easily... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 482 ページ
...to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else....intellectual labour ; but even supposing knowledge to be easilyattainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 ページ
...money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement. Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labour, but even supposing knowledge to be easily obtainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire... | |
 | John Forster - 1877 - 468 ページ
...shut up. His infirmities " were not noxious to society. Ho insisted on people praying " with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. " Another charge was, that ho did not love clean linen ; and, sir, " I have no passion for it." t Their exertions were successful.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1880 - 488 ページ
...have no passion for it." Johnson continued. " Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor ; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable,...would be content to be ignorant than would take even u little trouble to acquire it.'' " The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act.... | |
 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 ページ
...blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. Second thoughts are often the wisest. Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labour;...even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, many more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 ページ
...society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one Use. Another charge was, that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it." Talking of the melancholy end of a gentleman who had destroyed himself. JOHNSON. "It was owing to imaginary... | |
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I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was, that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it. 
