The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.Nichols and Son, 1801 - Biography |
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... shall not now be very diligent to enquire , for I had no particular pleasure in fubverting the re- putation of Milton , which I had myself once endea- voured to exalt * ; and of which , the foundation had always remained untouched by me ...
... shall not now be very diligent to enquire , for I had no particular pleasure in fubverting the re- putation of Milton , which I had myself once endea- voured to exalt * ; and of which , the foundation had always remained untouched by me ...
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... shall never be able to difcern . Our difcoverers tell us , the Creator has made beings of all orders , and that therefore one of them must be fuch as man . But this system seems to be established on a conceffion , which , if it be ...
... shall never be able to difcern . Our difcoverers tell us , the Creator has made beings of all orders , and that therefore one of them must be fuch as man . But this system seems to be established on a conceffion , which , if it be ...
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... shall infert it , not that it will give any information to any reader , but it may ferve to fhew how the most common notion may be fwelled in found , and diffused in bulk , till it fhall per- haps aftonish the author himself . 66 66 ...
... shall infert it , not that it will give any information to any reader , but it may ferve to fhew how the most common notion may be fwelled in found , and diffused in bulk , till it fhall per- haps aftonish the author himself . 66 66 ...
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... given , which are given for a legal can- didate . It remains then to be difcuffed , whether a man expelled can be fo difqualified by a vote of the House , House , as that he shall be no longer eligible THE FALSE ALARM . 73.
... given , which are given for a legal can- didate . It remains then to be difcuffed , whether a man expelled can be fo difqualified by a vote of the House , House , as that he shall be no longer eligible THE FALSE ALARM . 73.
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Samuel Johnson. House , as that he shall be no longer eligible by law- ful electors ? Here we must again recur , not to pofitive inftitu- tions , but to the unwritten law of focial nature , to the great and pregnant principle of ...
Samuel Johnson. House , as that he shall be no longer eligible by law- ful electors ? Here we must again recur , not to pofitive inftitu- tions , but to the unwritten law of focial nature , to the great and pregnant principle of ...
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Page 394 - 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 158 - ... that the continent of North America contains three millions, not of men merely, but of Whigs, of Whigs fierce for liberty, and disdainful of dominion; that they multiply with the fecundity of their own rattlesnakes, so that every quarter of a century doubles their numbers.
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 414 - 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 346 - 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 355 - ... 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 6 - It is yet in the power of a great people to reward the poet whose name they boast, and from their alliance to whose genius they claim some kind of superiority to every other nation of the earth; that poet, whose works may possibly be read when every other monument of British greatness shall be obliterated ; to reward him, not with pictures or with medals, which, if he sees, he sees with contempt, but with tokens of gratitude, which he, perhaps, may even now consider as not unworthy the regard of...
Page 48 - The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it...