THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D1892 |
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... thought it necessary or proper, he frequently indulged himself in pleasantry and sportive sallies. ' He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the marvellous and the ...
... thought it necessary or proper, he frequently indulged himself in pleasantry and sportive sallies. ' He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the marvellous and the ...
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... thought their success in England rather exceeded the due proportion of their real merit ; and because he could not but see in them that nationality which I believe no liberal-minded Scotsman will deny. He was, indeed, if I may be ...
... thought their success in England rather exceeded the due proportion of their real merit ; and because he could not but see in them that nationality which I believe no liberal-minded Scotsman will deny. He was, indeed, if I may be ...
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... thought there was something in it if there had been for twenty years a neglect to prosecute a crime which was known. He would not allow that a murder, by not being discovered for twenty years, should escape punishment. We talked of the ...
... thought there was something in it if there had been for twenty years a neglect to prosecute a crime which was known. He would not allow that a murder, by not being discovered for twenty years, should escape punishment. We talked of the ...
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... thought necessary to human happiness — is he to be surprised if another man comes and laughs at him ? If he is the great man he thinks himself, all this cannot hurt him ; it is like throwing peas against a rock." He added " something ...
... thought necessary to human happiness — is he to be surprised if another man comes and laughs at him ? If he is the great man he thinks himself, all this cannot hurt him ; it is like throwing peas against a rock." He added " something ...
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... thought Gibbon). " You will at least, said some one, " allow him the lumieres." — " Just enough," replied the Doctor, " to light him to hell." — Croker, 2 This letter, though shattered by the sharp shot of Doctor Home of Oxford's wit ...
... thought Gibbon). " You will at least, said some one, " allow him the lumieres." — " Just enough," replied the Doctor, " to light him to hell." — Croker, 2 This letter, though shattered by the sharp shot of Doctor Home of Oxford's wit ...
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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.