The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, المجلد 54A. Constable, 1831 |
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... admitted to the sittings of the Kit - cat or the Scriblerus Club , would have sat in the Parliament , and would have been intrusted with embassies to the High Allies ; who , if he had lived , in our time , would have received from the ...
... admitted to the sittings of the Kit - cat or the Scriblerus Club , would have sat in the Parliament , and would have been intrusted with embassies to the High Allies ; who , if he had lived , in our time , would have received from the ...
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... admitted into the most respectable society on an equal footing . They were men of quite a different species from the dependents of Curll and Osborne . Johnson came among them the solitary specimen of a past age , —the last survivor of ...
... admitted into the most respectable society on an equal footing . They were men of quite a different species from the dependents of Curll and Osborne . Johnson came among them the solitary specimen of a past age , —the last survivor of ...
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... admitted , the statute - book and the reports being once assumed as the founda- tions of jurisprudence , these men must be allowed to be perfect masters of logic . But if a question arises as to the postulates on which their whole ...
... admitted , the statute - book and the reports being once assumed as the founda- tions of jurisprudence , these men must be allowed to be perfect masters of logic . But if a question arises as to the postulates on which their whole ...
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... admitted that they would not often be severe . The ten thousand living mouths , which , according to an ex- pression of the Syracusan Hiero , were fed upon dead Homer , could scarcely , in politic gratitude , repay him with austerity of ...
... admitted that they would not often be severe . The ten thousand living mouths , which , according to an ex- pression of the Syracusan Hiero , were fed upon dead Homer , could scarcely , in politic gratitude , repay him with austerity of ...
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... admitted fact , that the soil of every extensive country is of very different degrees of fertility ; varying , by many gradations , from the finest loams and meadows , to the most barren heaths and rocks - from the rich lowlands of ...
... admitted fact , that the soil of every extensive country is of very different degrees of fertility ; varying , by many gradations , from the finest loams and meadows , to the most barren heaths and rocks - from the rich lowlands of ...
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الصفحة 4 - But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer.
الصفحة 3 - The Family Shakspeare ; in which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud. By T. BOWDLEB, Esq. FRS New Edition, in Volumes for the Pocket ; with 36 Wood Engravings, from Designs by Smirke, Howard, and other Artists.
الصفحة 20 - Sir Adam introduced the ancient Greeks and Romans. JOHNSON, " Sir, the mass of both of them were barbarians. The mass of every people must be barbarous where there is no printing, and consequently knowledge is not generally diffused. Knowledge is diffused among our people by the newspapers.
الصفحة 87 - Ye adulterers and adulteresses know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
الصفحة 24 - ... wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and mouth moving with convulsive twitches; we see the heavy form rolling; we hear it puffing; and then comes the " Why, sir !
الصفحة 86 - I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
الصفحة 433 - The way, hardly discernible in gloom, runs close by the mouth of the burning pit, which sends forth its flames, its noisome smoke, and its hideous shapes, to terrify the adventurer. Thence he goes on, amidst the snares and pitfalls, with the mangled bodies of those who have perished lying in the ditch by his side. At the end...
الصفحة 15 - Let us not be found, when our Master calls us, stripping the lace off our waistcoats, but the spirit of contention from our souls and tongues. Alas ! sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.
الصفحة 2 - We arc not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived ; and he has beaten them all.
الصفحة 438 - I walked," says he, with his own peculiar eloquence, to a neighbouring town ; and sat down upon a settle in the street, and fell into a very deep pause about the most fearful state my sin had brought me to ; and after long musing, I lifted up my head ; but methought I saw as if the sun that shineth in the heavens did grudge to give me light; and as if the very stones in the street, and tiles upon the houses, did band themselves against me.