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... Johnson's manners , warmed to virtue even by the distant reflection of his glowing excellence , and encouraged Johnson's Works , vol . vii . , p . 143. Oxford Edition . by the relation of his animated zeal to persist in.
... Johnson's manners , warmed to virtue even by the distant reflection of his glowing excellence , and encouraged Johnson's Works , vol . vii . , p . 143. Oxford Edition . by the relation of his animated zeal to persist in.
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... virtue and learning he delighted to talk in very exalted terms ; and poor Dr. Lawrence had long been his friend and confidant . The conversation I saw them hold together in Essex - street one day in the year 1781 or 1782 , was a ...
... virtue and learning he delighted to talk in very exalted terms ; and poor Dr. Lawrence had long been his friend and confidant . The conversation I saw them hold together in Essex - street one day in the year 1781 or 1782 , was a ...
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... virtue . Nothing indeed " Dans l'adversitié de nos meilleurs amis , nous trouvons toujours quelque chose qui ne nous deplait pas . " - Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales , 1st ed . , 1665 , No. 99. This maxim was one of the ...
... virtue . Nothing indeed " Dans l'adversitié de nos meilleurs amis , nous trouvons toujours quelque chose qui ne nous deplait pas . " - Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales , 1st ed . , 1665 , No. 99. This maxim was one of the ...
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... virtues ( said he ) are the bons mots of life ; they do not appear often , and when they do appear are too much prized I ... virtue ( continued he ) , I hope I have not lost my sensibility of wrong ; but I hope likewise that I have lived ...
... virtues ( said he ) are the bons mots of life ; they do not appear often , and when they do appear are too much prized I ... virtue ( continued he ) , I hope I have not lost my sensibility of wrong ; but I hope likewise that I have lived ...
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... virtue never gave way to meaner considerations . We talked of a dead wit one evening , and somebody praised him— " Let us never praise talents so ill employed , Sir ; we foul our mouths by commending such in- fidels ( said he ) ...
... virtue never gave way to meaner considerations . We talked of a dead wit one evening , and somebody praised him— " Let us never praise talents so ill employed , Sir ; we foul our mouths by commending such in- fidels ( said he ) ...
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Page 391 - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed...
Page 31 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 382 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 412 - 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...
Page 377 - Johnson: one, in particular, praised his impartiality ; observing, that he dealt out reason and eloquence, with an equal hand to both parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it.
Page 391 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like...
Page 363 - ... wherever human nature is to be found, there is a mixture of vice and virtue, a contest of passion and reason; and that the Creator doth not appear partial in his distributions, but has balanced, in most countries, their particular inconveniences by particular favours.
Page 128 - A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek. My old friend Mrs. Carter," he added, " could make a pudding as well as translate Epictetus from the Greek, and work a handkerchief as well as compose a poem.
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