The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Adventurer. Philological tractsJ. Buckland [and 40 others], 1787 |
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... truth he fpeaks , is re'er believ'd . W PHAD . HEN Ariftotle was once afked , what a man could gain by uttering falfehoods ; he re- plied , " Not to be credited when he fhall tell the << truth . " The character of a liar is at once fo ...
... truth he fpeaks , is re'er believ'd . W PHAD . HEN Ariftotle was once afked , what a man could gain by uttering falfehoods ; he re- plied , " Not to be credited when he fhall tell the << truth . " The character of a liar is at once fo ...
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... truth is neceffary to all focieties : nor can the " fociety of hell fubfift without it . " It is natural to expect , that a crime thus general- ly detefted should be generally avoided ; at least , that none fhould expofe himself to ...
... truth is neceffary to all focieties : nor can the " fociety of hell fubfift without it . " It is natural to expect , that a crime thus general- ly detefted should be generally avoided ; at least , that none fhould expofe himself to ...
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... truth affords no gratifica- tions , is generally inclined to feek them in falfe- hools . It is remarked by Sir Kenelm Digby , " that every " man has a defire to appear fuperior to others , " though it were only in having feen what they ...
... truth affords no gratifica- tions , is generally inclined to feek them in falfe- hools . It is remarked by Sir Kenelm Digby , " that every " man has a defire to appear fuperior to others , " though it were only in having feen what they ...
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... truth : their narratives always imply fome con- fequence in favour of their courage , their fagacity , or their activity , their familiarity with the learned , or their reception among the great ; they are always bribed by the prefent ...
... truth : their narratives always imply fome con- fequence in favour of their courage , their fagacity , or their activity , their familiarity with the learned , or their reception among the great ; they are always bribed by the prefent ...
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... truth of this remark every day furnishes new confirmation : there is no time of life , in which men for the most part feem lefs to expect the ftroke of death , than when every other eye fees it impend- ing ; or are more busy in ...
... truth of this remark every day furnishes new confirmation : there is no time of life , in which men for the most part feem lefs to expect the ftroke of death , than when every other eye fees it impend- ing ; or are more busy in ...
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الصفحة 232 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
الصفحة 289 - I have indeed disappointed no opinion more than my own ; yet I have endeavoured to perform: my task with no slight solicitude.
الصفحة 243 - He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate, for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
الصفحة 263 - ... whether from all his successors more maxims of theoretical knowledge, or more rules of practical prudence, can be collected, than he alone has given to his country.
الصفحة 285 - In restoring the author's works to their integrity, I have considered the punctuation as wholly in my power; for what could be their care of colons and commas, who corrupted words and sentences?
الصفحة 232 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of Nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
الصفحة 245 - His declamations or set speeches are commonly cold and weak, for his power was the power of nature...
الصفحة 251 - If there be any fallacy, it is not that we fancy the players, but that we fancy ourselves unhappy for a moment; but we rather lament the possibility, than suppose the presence of misery, as a mother weeps over her babe, when she remembers that death may take it from her. The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought murders and treasons real, they would please no more.
الصفحة 249 - There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in ecstasy should count the clock, or why an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brains that can make the stage a field.
الصفحة 246 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.