 He speaks, and attention watches his lips. He reasons, and conviction closes his periods. This man shall be my future guide : I will learn his doctrines, and imitate his life." " Be not too hasty," said Imlac, " to trust, or to admire, the teachers of...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Page 241by Samuel Taylor Johnson - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Giuseppe Baretti - Language and languages - 1772 - 490 pages
...feeling the cogency of his own arguments, paid his vi fit in a few days, and was denied admiffion. He had now learned the power of money, and made his...of gold to the inner apartment, where he found the philofopher in a room half darkened, with his eyes mifty and his face pale. Sir, faid the man, you... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...without feeling the cogency of his own arguments, paid his vifit in a few days, and was denied admiffion. He had now learned the power of money, and made his...of gold to the inner apartment, where he found the philofopher in a room half darkened, with his eyes mifty, and his face pale. " Sir, faid he, you are... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 546 pages
...without feeling the cogency of his own arguments, paid his vifit in a few days, and was denied admiffion. He had now learned the power of money, and made his...of gold to the inner apartment, where he found the philpfopher in a room half darkened, with his eyes mifty, and his face pale. " Sir, faid he, you are... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...feeling the cogency of his own arguments, paid his vifit in a few days, and was denied admiffion. fie had now learned the power of money, and made his way...of gold to the inner apartment, where he found the philofopher in a room half darkened, with his eyes mifty, and his face pale. " Sir, faid he, you are... | |
 | English fiction - 1788 - 778 pages
...vitit in a few days, and was denied admiffion. He had now learned the power of money, and made hit way by a piece of gold to the inner apartment, where he found the philofopher in a room half darkened, with hit eyes mirty, and his face pale. ' Sir,' faid be, ' you... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...paid his vifit in a few days, and was denied admiffion. He had now learned PRINCE OF ABISSINIA. 119 learned the power of money, and made his way by a...of gold to the inner apartment, where he found the philofopher in a room half darkened, with his eyes mifty, and his face pale. " Sir," faid he, <c you... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...without feeling the cogency of his own arguments, paid his vifit in a few days, and was denied admiffion. He had now learned the power of money, and made his...of gold to the inner apartment, where he found the philofopher in a room half darkened, with his eyes mifly, and his face pale. " Sir, faid he, you are... | |
 | English instructor - English literature - 1801 - 272 pages
...trust ,' » or to admire, the teachers of morality: » they discourse like angels , but they liye » like men. » Rasselas , who could not conceive how...the power of money , and made his way by a piece of I 98 THE ESTG i ISH INS TRUC TOR. gold to the inner apartment , where he found the philosopher in a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...his doctrines, and imitate his life." "Be not too hasty," said Irnlac, "to trust, or to admire, the teachers of morality: they discourse like angels,...so forcibly without feeling the cogency of his own arauments, paid his visit in a few days, and was denied admission. He had now learned the power of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...his doctrines, and imitate his life." " Be not too hasty," said Imlac, " to trust, or to admire, the teachers of morality : they discourse like angels,...cogency of his own arguments, paid his visit in a fevr days, and was denied admission. He had now learned the power of money, and made his way by a pieci"... | |
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