The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll. D.: Containing essays, tracts, and JourneyJ. Haddon, 1820 |
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... wish was to have passed undetected ; but since it has been my for- tune to fail in my original design , to have the sup- posititious passages which I have inserted in my quotations made known to the world , and the shade which began to ...
... wish was to have passed undetected ; but since it has been my for- tune to fail in my original design , to have the sup- posititious passages which I have inserted in my quotations made known to the world , and the shade which began to ...
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... wish that he would solve this ques- tion , Why he that has nothing to write should de- sire to be a writer ? Yet is not this letter without some sentiments which , though not new , are of great importance , and may be read with pleasure ...
... wish that he would solve this ques- tion , Why he that has nothing to write should de- sire to be a writer ? Yet is not this letter without some sentiments which , though not new , are of great importance , and may be read with pleasure ...
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... wish that I shall find nothing to blame in the succeeding part . He of- fers a criterion of action , on account of virtue and vice , for which I have often contended , and which must be embraced by all who are willing to know 48 REVIEW OF ...
... wish that I shall find nothing to blame in the succeeding part . He of- fers a criterion of action , on account of virtue and vice , for which I have often contended , and which must be embraced by all who are willing to know 48 REVIEW OF ...
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... and apprehensions , and something very alarming , and that he is sure it is against the government ; the other is convinced that it must be right , and wishes he had been there , for he loves wine and 88 THE FALSE ALARM .
... and apprehensions , and something very alarming , and that he is sure it is against the government ; the other is convinced that it must be right , and wishes he had been there , for he loves wine and 88 THE FALSE ALARM .
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... wish to change their ground , they hear him with sullen silence , feel con- viction without repentance , and are confounded but not abashed ; they go forward to another door , and find a kinder reception from a man enraged against the ...
... wish to change their ground , they hear him with sullen silence , feel con- viction without repentance , and are confounded but not abashed ; they go forward to another door , and find a kinder reception from a man enraged against the ...
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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...