The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Alexander V. Blake, 1840 |
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Page vii
... easily eradicated . His letter to Cave on this subject is still extant , and may well justify Sir John Hawkins , who inferred that Johnson was the translator of Crousaz . The conclusion of the letter is remarkable . " 1 am yours ...
... easily eradicated . His letter to Cave on this subject is still extant , and may well justify Sir John Hawkins , who inferred that Johnson was the translator of Crousaz . The conclusion of the letter is remarkable . " 1 am yours ...
Page xxxi
... easily discover expressions not very favourable to morals , or to liberty . " This sentence is se- vere , and , perhaps dogmatical . Crousaz wrote an Examen of The Essay on Man , and after- wards a Commentary on every remarkable passage ...
... easily discover expressions not very favourable to morals , or to liberty . " This sentence is se- vere , and , perhaps dogmatical . Crousaz wrote an Examen of The Essay on Man , and after- wards a Commentary on every remarkable passage ...
Page 18
... easily susceptible of impressions ; not fixed by principles , and therefore easily following the current of fancy ; not informed by experience , and consequently open to every false suggestion and partial account . That the highest ...
... easily susceptible of impressions ; not fixed by principles , and therefore easily following the current of fancy ; not informed by experience , and consequently open to every false suggestion and partial account . That the highest ...
Page 20
... easily to ac- commodate itself to occasional entertainment . A man that has formed this habit of turning every new object to his entertainment , finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of materials upon which he can ...
... easily to ac- commodate itself to occasional entertainment . A man that has formed this habit of turning every new object to his entertainment , finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of materials upon which he can ...
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... easily he might at first have repelled the tempta- tion , how readily his mind would have obeyed a call to any other object , and how weak his pas- sion has been after some casual avocation , till he has recalled it again to his heart ...
... easily he might at first have repelled the tempta- tion , how readily his mind would have obeyed a call to any other object , and how weak his pas- sion has been after some casual avocation , till he has recalled it again to his heart ...
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Page xiv - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Page xiv - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page xiv - 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 the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not...
Page 102 - If we owe regard to the memory of the dead, there is yet more respect to be paid to knowledge, to virtue, and to truth.
Page 109 - By degrees we let fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire. We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way.
Page iii - He appears by his modest and unaffected narration to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination; he meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes, his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants.
Page 109 - ... yet remains one effort to be made ; that reformation is never hopeless, nor sincere endeavours ever unassisted; that the wanderer may at length return after all his errors, and that he who implores strength and courage from above, shall find danger and difficulty give way before him. Go now, my son, to thy repose, commit thyself to the care of Omnipotence, and when the morning calls again to toil, begin anew thy journey and thy life.
Page 101 - ALL joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate ; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves.
Page 102 - Catiline, to remark that his walk was now quick, and again slow, as an indication of a mind revolving something with violent commotion. Thus the story of Melancthon affords a striking lecture on the value of time, by informing us that, when he made an appointment, he- expected not only the hour but the minute to be fixed, that the day might not run out in the idleness of suspense...
Page xiv - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation. My Lord, your lordship's most humble, most obedient servant,