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... wish to see it , easily escapes our notice , or takes such a form as desire or imagination bestows upon it . Every man might , for the same reason , in the multitudes that swarm about him , find some kindred mind with which he could ...
... wish to see it , easily escapes our notice , or takes such a form as desire or imagination bestows upon it . Every man might , for the same reason , in the multitudes that swarm about him , find some kindred mind with which he could ...
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... for I look upon it , that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else . ' He now appeared to me Jean Bull philosophe , and he was for the The whole world is put in motion by the wish 40 ESSAYS OF DR . JOHNSON .
... for I look upon it , that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else . ' He now appeared to me Jean Bull philosophe , and he was for the The whole world is put in motion by the wish 40 ESSAYS OF DR . JOHNSON .
الصفحة 41
Samuel Johnson. The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty . Who , then , would not imagine that such conduct as will in- evitably destroy what all are thus labouring to acquire , must be generally ...
Samuel Johnson. The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty . Who , then , would not imagine that such conduct as will in- evitably destroy what all are thus labouring to acquire , must be generally ...
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... wish than to be well received , or any measure of right and wrong but the opinion of his patron . A man flattered and obeyed , learns to exact grosser adulation , and enjoin lower submission . Neither our virtues nor vices are all our ...
... wish than to be well received , or any measure of right and wrong but the opinion of his patron . A man flattered and obeyed , learns to exact grosser adulation , and enjoin lower submission . Neither our virtues nor vices are all our ...
الصفحة 49
... wish to see His vile accuser drink as deep as he : Exalted Socrates ! divinely brave ! Injur'd he fell , and dying he forgave , Too noble for revenge ; which still we find The weakest frailty of a feeble mind . - DRYDEN.2 N O vicious ...
... wish to see His vile accuser drink as deep as he : Exalted Socrates ! divinely brave ! Injur'd he fell , and dying he forgave , Too noble for revenge ; which still we find The weakest frailty of a feeble mind . - DRYDEN.2 N O vicious ...
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الصفحة 75 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and •cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
الصفحة 101 - The March begins in Military State, And Nations on his Eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary Coast, And Winter barricades the Realms of Frost ; He comes, nor Want nor Cold his Course delay; — Hide, blushing Glory, hide Pultowa's day...
الصفحة 107 - the cooling western breeze," In the next line, it "whispers through the trees:" If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep...
الصفحة 82 - When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification, I have familiarized the terms of philosophy by applying them to popular ideas...
الصفحة 67 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O Sleep, O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down. And steep my senses in forgetfulness ! Why, rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfumed chambers of the great...
الصفحة 223 - No. 65., there is the following very extraordinary paragraph: " The authenticity of Clarendon's History, though printed with the sanction of one of the first universities of the world, had not an unexpected manuscript been happily discovered, would, with the help of factious credulity, have been brought into question, by the two lowest of all human beings, a scribbler for a party, and a commissioner of excise.
الصفحة 110 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
الصفحة 128 - I do now publish my Essays, which of all my other works have been most current, for that, as it seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms.
الصفحة 178 - The sun grew low, and left the skies, Put down (some write) by ladies eyes ; The moon pull'd off her veil of light, That hides her face by day from sight, (Mysterious veil, of brightness made, That's both her lustre and her shade) And in the lanthorn of the night, With shining horns hung out her light : For darkness is the proper sphere Where all false glories use t
الصفحة 193 - These are the great occasions which force the mind to take refuge in Religion: when we have no help in ourselves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater Power; and to what hope may we not raise our eyes and hearts, when we consider that the Greatest POWER is the BEST.