THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D1892 |
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... at Monboddo — Emigration — Homer — Biography and history compared — Decrease of learning — Causes of it — Promotion of bishops — Warburton— Lowth — Value of polite- Page Aug. ness — Dr. Johnson's sentiments concerning Lord Mon-
... at Monboddo — Emigration — Homer — Biography and history compared — Decrease of learning — Causes of it — Promotion of bishops — Warburton— Lowth — Value of polite- Page Aug. ness — Dr. Johnson's sentiments concerning Lord Mon-
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... polite as to waive his privilege of nil mihi rescribas, and wrote from Edinburgh as follows : — " Your very kind and agreeable favour of the 20th of April overtook me here yesterday, after having gone to Aberdeen, which place I left ...
... polite as to waive his privilege of nil mihi rescribas, and wrote from Edinburgh as follows : — " Your very kind and agreeable favour of the 20th of April overtook me here yesterday, after having gone to Aberdeen, which place I left ...
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... polite when he chose to be so, his address to her was most courteous and engaging ; and his conversation soon charmed her into a forgetfuluess of his external appearance. I did not begin to keep a regular full journal till some days ...
... polite when he chose to be so, his address to her was most courteous and engaging ; and his conversation soon charmed her into a forgetfuluess of his external appearance. I did not begin to keep a regular full journal till some days ...
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... politely said to him, '- I have not the honour of knowing you ; but I hope for it, and to see you at my house. I am to wait on you to-morrow." This respectable English judge will be long remembered in Scotland, where he built an elegant ...
... politely said to him, '- I have not the honour of knowing you ; but I hope for it, and to see you at my house. I am to wait on you to-morrow." This respectable English judge will be long remembered in Scotland, where he built an elegant ...
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... politeness was of great consequence in society. " It is," said he, " fictitious benevolence. It supplies the place of it amongst those who see each other only in public, or but little. Depend upon it the want of it never fails to ...
... politeness was of great consequence in society. " It is," said he, " fictitious benevolence. It supplies the place of it amongst those who see each other only in public, or but little. Depend upon it the want of it never fails to ...
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الصفحة 66 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn : The first in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the other two.
الصفحة 437 - Death by the Ancients. Translated by EC Beasley and Helen Zimmern. Edited by Edward Bell, MA With a Frontispiece of the Laokoon group. y- 6d. LILLY'S Introduction to Astrology.
الصفحة 439 - History of the Planting and Training of the Christian Church by the Apostles. Translated by JE Ryland. 2 vols. 3*. 6d. each. Memorials of Christian Life In the Early and Middle Ages ; including Light in Dark Places.
الصفحة 77 - ... have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them learn, than tell a child if you do thus or thus, you will be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't ; whereas, by exciting emulation, and comparisons of superiority, you lay the foundation of lasting mischief; you make brothers and sisters hate each other.
الصفحة 64 - The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind! Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose.
الصفحة 91 - Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
الصفحة 429 - CRUIKSHANK'S Three Courses and a Dessert ; comprising three Sets of Tales, West Country, Irish, and Legal; and a Melange.
الصفحة 439 - Is. 6d. per vol. Naval and Military Heroes of Great Britain ; or, Calendar of Victory. Being a Record of British Valour and Conquest by Sea and Land, on every day In the year, from the time of William the Conqueror to the Battle of Inkermann. By Major JOHNS, RM, and Lieutenant PH NICOLAS, RM Twenty-four Portraits 6s. Nicolini's History of the Jesuits: their Origin, Progress, Doctrines, and Designs. Fine Portraits of Loyola, Laines, Xavier, Borgia, Acquaviva, Pere la Cliaise, and Pope h'anganclli.
الصفحة 423 - APPIAN'S Roman History. Translated by Horace White, MA, LL.D. With Maps and Illustrations. 2 vols. 6s. each.
الصفحة 431 - FLORENCE of WORCESTER'S Chronicle, with the Two Continuations : comprising Annals of English History, from the Departure of the Romans to the Reign of Edward I.