The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, المجلد 2Cowie, 1825 |
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... seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position , or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced rea- soners are restrained from confidence , they form their con- clusions with great precipitance . Seeing ...
... seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position , or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced rea- soners are restrained from confidence , they form their con- clusions with great precipitance . Seeing ...
الصفحة 2
... seldom add more than some small particle of knowledge , to the hereditary stock devolved to them from ancient times , the collective labour of a thousand intellects . In science , which , being fixed and limited , admits of no other ...
... seldom add more than some small particle of knowledge , to the hereditary stock devolved to them from ancient times , the collective labour of a thousand intellects . In science , which , being fixed and limited , admits of no other ...
الصفحة 9
... seldom risen to the majesty of history . The works of Clarendon deserve more regard . His diction is indeed neither exact in itself , nor suited to the purpose of history . It is the effusion of a mind crowded with ideas , and desirous ...
... seldom risen to the majesty of history . The works of Clarendon deserve more regard . His diction is indeed neither exact in itself , nor suited to the purpose of history . It is the effusion of a mind crowded with ideas , and desirous ...
الصفحة 12
... seldom ended without some complaint of my covetousness , or some remark upon my language , or my gait . I now began to venture into the publick walks , and to know the faces of nobles and beauties ; but could not observe , without ...
... seldom ended without some complaint of my covetousness , or some remark upon my language , or my gait . I now began to venture into the publick walks , and to know the faces of nobles and beauties ; but could not observe , without ...
الصفحة 29
... seldom equalled the sallies of his youth . It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities , to disappoint the hopes which they had raised , and to end in neglect ...
... seldom equalled the sallies of his youth . It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities , to disappoint the hopes which they had raised , and to end in neglect ...
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الصفحة 86 - Be of good courage, I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts. I with this messenger will go along, Nothing to do, be sure, that may dishonour Our law, or stain my vow of Nazarite.
الصفحة 589 - Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning...
الصفحة 610 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
الصفحة 89 - Fathers are wont to lay up for their sons, Thou for thy son art bent to lay out all...
الصفحة 622 - The Italian, attends only to the invariable, the great and general ; ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly...
الصفحة 400 - ... performed. He that waits for an opportunity to do much at once, may breathe out his life in idle wishes, and regret, in the last hour, his useless intentions, and barren zeal.
الصفحة 466 - Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained; but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom; they may effectually resolve to escape the tyrant, whom they will very vainly resolve to conquer.
الصفحة 216 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry " Hold, hold !
الصفحة 216 - Yet this sentiment is weakened by the name of an instrument used by butchers and cooks in the meanest employments; we do not immediately conceive that any crime of importance is to be committed with a knife; or who does not, at last, from the long habit of connecting a knife with sordid offices, feel aversion rather than terror?
الصفحة 90 - No strength of man or fiercest wild beast could withstand ; Who tore the lion, as the lion tears the kid...