 | Robert Anderson - College readers - 696 pages
...opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me. " He had mingled in the gay world without exemption from its vices or its follies; but...cultivation of his mind. His belief of revelation was unshaken ; his learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular, and then pious. " His studies... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 418 pages
...opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me. He had mingled with the gay world without exemption from its vices or its follies, but...cultivation of his mind ; his belief of Revelation was unshaken ; his learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular, and then pious. His studies... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 544 pages
...opinion did uot keep us apart. I honoured him and he endured me. " He had mingled with the gay world without exemption from its vices or its follies ; but had never neglected the cultivation of his * Mr. Warton informs me, " that this early friend of Johnson wus entered a Commoner of Trinity College,... | |
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He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me. He had mingled with the gay world without exemption from its vices or its follies, but had never neglected... 
