The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll. D.: Containing essays, tracts, and JourneyJ. Haddon, 1820 |
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... obtain pardon for one act of felony , to confess himself guilty of a thousand . However , I cannot but condemn myself for placing so implicit a confidence in the judgment of any man , how great or good soever , as to suffer his mistakes ...
... obtain pardon for one act of felony , to confess himself guilty of a thousand . However , I cannot but condemn myself for placing so implicit a confidence in the judgment of any man , how great or good soever , as to suffer his mistakes ...
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... obtained from the most illustrious and vene- rable names by misrepresentation and delusion , and to appear hereafter in such a character , as shall give you no reason to regret that your name is frequent- ly mentioned with that of ...
... obtained from the most illustrious and vene- rable names by misrepresentation and delusion , and to appear hereafter in such a character , as shall give you no reason to regret that your name is frequent- ly mentioned with that of ...
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... obtain from philoso- phy ; nor , unless the method of education , and the general tenor of life are changed , will very easily receive it from religion . The bulk of mankind is not likely to be very wise or very good : and I know not ...
... obtain from philoso- phy ; nor , unless the method of education , and the general tenor of life are changed , will very easily receive it from religion . The bulk of mankind is not likely to be very wise or very good : and I know not ...
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... obtain the right of be- ing denominated the chief county , cannot easily be discovered ; it is indeed the county where the chief city happens to stand , but how that city treated the favourite of Middlesex , is not yet forgotten . The ...
... obtain the right of be- ing denominated the chief county , cannot easily be discovered ; it is indeed the county where the chief city happens to stand , but how that city treated the favourite of Middlesex , is not yet forgotten . The ...
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... obtained . Yet a new parliament is sufficiently desirable . The year of election is a year of jollity ; and what is still more delightful , a year of equality . The glutton now eats the delicacies for which he longed when he could not ...
... obtained . Yet a new parliament is sufficiently desirable . The year of election is a year of jollity ; and what is still more delightful , a year of equality . The glutton now eats the delicacies for which he longed when he could not ...
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Стр. 391 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible.
Стр. 174 - That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property, and they have never ceded to any sovereign power whatever, a right to dispose of either without their consent.
Стр. 48 - The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it...
Стр. 249 - An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from her care, and disinherited of her favours, left in its original elemental state, or quickened only with -one sullen power of useless vegetation.
Стр. 285 - We were entertained with the usual hospitality by Mr. Macdonald, and his lady Flora Macdonald, a name that will be mentioned in history, and, if courage and fidelity be virtues, mentioned with honour.
Стр. 177 - 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.
Стр. 176 - 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.
Стр. 271 - If an epicure could remove by a wish, in quest of sensual gratifications, wherever he had supped he would breakfast in Scotland.
Стр. 219 - His history is written with elegance and vigour, but his fabulousness and credulity are justly blamed. His fabulousness. if he was the author of the fictions, is a fault for which no apology can be made ; but his credulity may be excused in an age when all men were credulous.
Стр. 177 - ... we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the 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...