The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland ... [and 39 others], 1787 - 602 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 93
... several bookfellers and printers . ' Tis " thought this poor man's misfortune is owing to his cc < having lately perplexed himself with biblical questions , " mathematical problems , aftronomical equations , and " methods to find the ...
... several bookfellers and printers . ' Tis " thought this poor man's misfortune is owing to his cc < having lately perplexed himself with biblical questions , " mathematical problems , aftronomical equations , and " methods to find the ...
الصفحة 95
... several speeches , and the general tendency and fubftance of the arguments . Thus furnished , Cave and his affociates would adjourn to a neighbouring tavern , and compare and adjust their notes , by means whereof and the help of their ...
... several speeches , and the general tendency and fubftance of the arguments . Thus furnished , Cave and his affociates would adjourn to a neighbouring tavern , and compare and adjust their notes , by means whereof and the help of their ...
الصفحة 129
... several pretenfions , or distinguish between * Mr. Pitt professed himself to be no reafoner . In the meetings of his party to fettle the method of conducting a debate , in oppofition to the minifter , he declined the enforcing ...
... several pretenfions , or distinguish between * Mr. Pitt professed himself to be no reafoner . In the meetings of his party to fettle the method of conducting a debate , in oppofition to the minifter , he declined the enforcing ...
الصفحة 133
... several books are arranged , a work of fome labour , and that required no small stock of erudition . This at least is certain , that he drew up a Latin dedica- tion of the whole to Lord Carteret , then fecretary of ftate , and ...
... several books are arranged , a work of fome labour , and that required no small stock of erudition . This at least is certain , that he drew up a Latin dedica- tion of the whole to Lord Carteret , then fecretary of ftate , and ...
الصفحة 141
... Several of the nobility , & c . encou- < raged him , and to them he dedicates feveral of these tracts . There are alfo commenda- tory verses before many of them , by fome ingenious writers . Among the pieces for ' which he was most ...
... Several of the nobility , & c . encou- < raged him , and to them he dedicates feveral of these tracts . There are alfo commenda- tory verses before many of them , by fome ingenious writers . Among the pieces for ' which he was most ...
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الصفحة 550 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
الصفحة 484 - I was born in the eighth climate, but seem to be framed and constellated unto all. I am no plant that will not prosper out of a garden. All places, all airs, make unto me one country ; I am in England everywhere, and under any meridian.
الصفحة 198 - For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die...
الصفحة 289 - I have familiarized the terms of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas, but have rarely admitted any word not authorized by former writers...
الصفحة 360 - I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.
الصفحة 342 - Have put their whole drama and epick to flight ; In satires, epistles, and odes, would they cope, Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French *, and will beat forty more...
الصفحة 62 - ... but, unfortunately, he is not capable of receiving their bounty, which would make him happy for life...
الصفحة 126 - Excursions of fancy, and flights of oratory, are indeed, pardonable in young men, but in no other; and it would surely contribute more, even to the purpose for which some gentlemen appear to speak, (that of depreciating the conduct of the...
الصفحة 347 - Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
الصفحة 492 - That our ancestors, who first settled these colonies, were at the time of their emigration from the mother country, entitled to all the rights, liberties, and immunities of free and natural-born subjects, within the realm of England.