The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Nichols and Son, 1801 - Biography |
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... never have been communicated , had there been " the leaft fufpicion of those facts which I have been the inftru- 66 ment of conveying to the world in these sheets . ” —- Milton vindi- cated from the charge of plagiarifm brought against ...
... never have been communicated , had there been " the leaft fufpicion of those facts which I have been the inftru- 66 ment of conveying to the world in these sheets . ” —- Milton vindi- cated from the charge of plagiarifm brought against ...
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... never " fure be deemed an injury , or a juft reafon to quef- ❝tion his infinite benevolence . All our happiness is " owing to his goodness ; but that it is no greater , " is owing only to ourselves ; that is , to our not " having any ...
... never " fure be deemed an injury , or a juft reafon to quef- ❝tion his infinite benevolence . All our happiness is " owing to his goodness ; but that it is no greater , " is owing only to ourselves ; that is , to our not " having any ...
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... never ask the question for itself . The bafs and treble differ only to the hearer , meannefs and magnificence only to the inhabitant . There is no Evil but muft inhere in a conscious being , or be referred to it ; that is , Evil must be ...
... never ask the question for itself . The bafs and treble differ only to the hearer , meannefs and magnificence only to the inhabitant . There is no Evil but muft inhere in a conscious being , or be referred to it ; that is , Evil must be ...
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... never be able to discern . Our discoverers tell us , the Creator has made beings of all orders , and that therefore one of them must be fuch as man . But this fystem seems to be established on a conceffion , which , if it be refused ...
... never be able to discern . Our discoverers tell us , the Creator has made beings of all orders , and that therefore one of them must be fuch as man . But this fystem seems to be established on a conceffion , which , if it be refused ...
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... never to be deprived by an ill - judged and impro- per education . It is the bafis of all fubordination , " the fupport of fociety , and the privilege of indi- " viduals and I have ever thought it a most re- " markable inftance of the ...
... never to be deprived by an ill - judged and impro- per education . It is the bafis of all fubordination , " the fupport of fociety , and the privilege of indi- " viduals and I have ever thought it a most re- " markable inftance of the ...
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Page 396 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground •which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Page 348 - Books are faithful repositories, which may be a while neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls, cannot be rekindled.
Page 46 - Many a merry bout have these frolic beings at the vicissitudes of an ague, and good sport it is to see a man tumble with an epilepsy, and revive and tumble again, and all this he knows not why.
Page 416 - Such are the things which this journey has given me an opportunity of seeing, and such are the reflections which that sight has raised. Having passed my time almost wholly in cities, I may have been surprised by modes of life and appearances of nature, that are familiar to men of wider survey and more varied conversation. Novelty and ignorance must always be reciprocal, and I cannot but be conscious that my thoughts on national manners, are the thoughts of one who has seen but little.
Page 357 - ... it if he had it; but whence could it be had? It is too long to be remembered, and the language formerly had nothing written. He has doubtless inserted names that circulate in popular stories, and may have translated some wandering ballads, if any can be found; and the names, and some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole.
Page 33 - The poor indeed are insensible of many little vexations which sometimes embitter the possessions and pollute the enjoyments of the rich. They are not pained by casual incivility, or mortified by the mutilation of a compliment; but this happiness is like that of a malefactor, who ceases to feel the cords that bind him when the pincers are tearing his flesh.
Page 35 - To entail irreversible poverty upon generation after generation, only because the ancestor happened to be poor, is in itself cruel, if not unjust, and is wholly contrary to the maxims of a commercial nation, which always suppose and promote a rotation of property, and offer every individual a chance of mending his condition by his diligence.
Page 48 - The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it...
Page 42 - We have no reason, therefore, to look upon death as an evil, or to fear it as a...
Page 255 - Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.