The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with A journal of a tour to the Hebrides. Repr. of the 1st ed., to which are added mr. Boswell's corrections [ &c.]. Ed., with new notes, by P. Fitzgerald. (Auchinleck ed.).1874 |
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... mind is ac- tually employed in the discharge of any profession . No man would be a Judge , upon the condition of being obliged to be totally a Judge . The best employed lawyer has his mind at work but for a small proportion of his time ...
... mind is ac- tually employed in the discharge of any profession . No man would be a Judge , upon the condition of being obliged to be totally a Judge . The best employed lawyer has his mind at work but for a small proportion of his time ...
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... mind was turned to resolution , and never to whining or complaint . We went again to St. Clement's in the afternoon . He had found fault with the preacher in the morning for not choosing a text adapted to the day . The preacher in the ...
... mind was turned to resolution , and never to whining or complaint . We went again to St. Clement's in the afternoon . He had found fault with the preacher in the morning for not choosing a text adapted to the day . The preacher in the ...
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... mind to it , had made it his sole object , he might have been as absolute as Louis the Fourteenth . " A gentleman observed he would have done no harm if he had . JOHNSON . " Why , Sir , absolute princes seldom do any harm . But they who ...
... mind to it , had made it his sole object , he might have been as absolute as Louis the Fourteenth . " A gentleman observed he would have done no harm if he had . JOHNSON . " Why , Sir , absolute princes seldom do any harm . But they who ...
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... mind has been somewhat dark this summer . I have need of your warming and vivifying rays ; and I hope I shall have them frequently . I am going to pass some time with my father at Auchinleck . " To JAMES BOSWELL , Esq . " DEAR SIR , -I ...
... mind has been somewhat dark this summer . I have need of your warming and vivifying rays ; and I hope I shall have them frequently . I am going to pass some time with my father at Auchinleck . " To JAMES BOSWELL , Esq . " DEAR SIR , -I ...
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... mind , and cannot be effaced but by some cause uncommonly violent ; therefore , whether I write or not , set your thoughts at rest . I now write to tell you that I shall not very soon write again , for I am to set out to - morrow on ...
... mind , and cannot be effaced but by some cause uncommonly violent ; therefore , whether I write or not , set your thoughts at rest . I now write to tell you that I shall not very soon write again , for I am to set out to - morrow on ...
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Page 436 - Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. 51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, 53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Page 211 - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Page 81 - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as. by a good tavern or inn.
Page 470 - 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 fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Page 81 - There is no private house (said he), in which people can enjoy themselves so well, as at a capital tavern. Let there be ever so great plenty of good things, ever [so much grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much desire that...
Page 444 - ... from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose; often it consisteth in one knows not what and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
Page 403 - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet, otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?
Page 444 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their...
Page 142 - Pray give me leave, Sir; — It is better here — A little of the brown— Some fat, Sir— A little of the stuffing — Some gravy — Let me have the pleasure of giving you some butter— Allow me to recommend a squeeze of this orange ; or the lemon, perhaps, may have more zest." — " Sir, Sir, I am obliged to you, Sir...
Page 219 - Why, Sir, you \ find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. \ No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.