The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, Accurately Extracted from the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order, After the Manner of the Duke de la Roche-Foucault's Maxims, المجلد 1G. Kearsly, 1782 - 209 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة viii
... Fear Forgiveness Frugality Favours Fancy . G. 71 Intelligence ib . Irrefolution 74 Infult ib . Incredulity Indulgence Inclination 100 ib . 72 Self - Importance ib . ΙΟΙ ib . 102 ib . Genius ib . Rural Improvements 103 Knowledge Page K ...
... Fear Forgiveness Frugality Favours Fancy . G. 71 Intelligence ib . Irrefolution 74 Infult ib . Incredulity Indulgence Inclination 100 ib . 72 Self - Importance ib . ΙΟΙ ib . 102 ib . Genius ib . Rural Improvements 103 Knowledge Page K ...
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... fear either depri- vation , or dimunition . Ditto , p . 112 . Of nations , as of individuals , the first bless- ing is independence . Neither the man northe people can be happy , to whom any human power can deny the neceffaries , or ...
... fear either depri- vation , or dimunition . Ditto , p . 112 . Of nations , as of individuals , the first bless- ing is independence . Neither the man northe people can be happy , to whom any human power can deny the neceffaries , or ...
الصفحة 25
... fear of the behold- er . But that which is fully known cannot be falfified but with reluctance of understand- ing , and alarm of confcience ; -of under- ftanding the lover of truth ; -of confcience the fentinel of virtue . Idler , v . 2 ...
... fear of the behold- er . But that which is fully known cannot be falfified but with reluctance of understand- ing , and alarm of confcience ; -of under- ftanding the lover of truth ; -of confcience the fentinel of virtue . Idler , v . 2 ...
الصفحة 45
... fears more as he fees lefs ; he knows there may be danger , and therefore fufpects that he is never safe , tries every flep before he fixes his foot , and fhrinks at every noise , left violence should approach him . Cunning difcovers ...
... fears more as he fees lefs ; he knows there may be danger , and therefore fufpects that he is never safe , tries every flep before he fixes his foot , and fhrinks at every noise , left violence should approach him . Cunning difcovers ...
الصفحة 48
... fears ; and to all thefe the confideration of morta- lity is a certain and adequate remedy . “ Think ( fays Epictetus , ) frequently on poverty , ba- nishment , and death , and thou wilt never in- dulge violent defires , or give up thy ...
... fears ; and to all thefe the confideration of morta- lity is a certain and adequate remedy . “ Think ( fays Epictetus , ) frequently on poverty , ba- nishment , and death , and thou wilt never in- dulge violent defires , or give up thy ...
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الصفحة 137 - ... there. He had one of these little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down, shook his head, and went on with his work of affliction. I heard his chains upon his legs as he turned his body to lay his little stick upon the bundle. He gave a deep sigh : I saw the iron enter into his soul. I burst into tears — I could not sustain the picture...
الصفحة 56 - But the truth is that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth and prove by events the reasonableness of...
الصفحة 2 - I, prays as often (of his own accord) as a parson ; and when he is fighting for his king, and for his own life, and for his honour too, he has the most reason to pray to God of any one in the whole world. 'Twas well said of thee, Trim, said my uncle Toby. But when a soldier, said I, an...
الصفحة 8 - The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to Heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in ; and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
الصفحة 37 - And hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, And with labour do we find the things that are before us...
الصفحة 150 - To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
الصفحة 29 - ... who asks advice which he never takes; to the boaster, who blusters only to be praised; to the complainer, who whines only to be pitied; to the projector, whose happiness is to entertain his friends with expectations which all but himself know to be vain; to the...
الصفحة 4 - When I went up, continued the corporal, into the lieutenant's room, which I did not do till the expiration of the ten minutes, he was lying in his bed, with his head raised upon his hand, with his elbow upon the pillow, and a clean white cambric handkerchief beside it.
الصفحة 2 - I thought, said the curate, that you gentlemen of the army, Mr. Trim, never said your prayers at all. I heard the poor gentleman say his prayers last night, said the landlady, very devoutly, and with my own ears, or I could not have believed it. Are you sure of it? replied the curate. A soldier, an...
الصفحة xv - I despaired at first, said the Corporal, of being able to bring back any intelligence to your Honour about the Lieutenant and his son ; — for when I asked where his servant was, from whom I made myself sure of knowing every thing which was proper to be asked, (That's a right distinction, Trim, said my uncle Toby) I was answered, an...