Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson, Volumen1Clarendon Press, 1888 - 323 páginas |
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Página ix
... knowledge of the whole art of life . Gibbon describes ' the majestic sense of Thurlow 2. ' If common sense can be thought of as invested with majesty , it is seen in all its state- liness much more in the dictionary - maker than in the ...
... knowledge of the whole art of life . Gibbon describes ' the majestic sense of Thurlow 2. ' If common sense can be thought of as invested with majesty , it is seen in all its state- liness much more in the dictionary - maker than in the ...
Página xix
... knowledge from accidental intelligence and various conversation , by a quick apprehension , a judicious selection , and a happy memory , a keen appetite of knowledge , and a powerful digestion " . Unlike most other gleaners , whatever ...
... knowledge from accidental intelligence and various conversation , by a quick apprehension , a judicious selection , and a happy memory , a keen appetite of knowledge , and a powerful digestion " . Unlike most other gleaners , whatever ...
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... knowledge , but he does not care to spend much time among authors ; for he is of opinion that few books deserve the labour of perusal , that they give the mind an unfashionable cast , and destroy that freedom of thought and easiness of ...
... knowledge , but he does not care to spend much time among authors ; for he is of opinion that few books deserve the labour of perusal , that they give the mind an unfashionable cast , and destroy that freedom of thought and easiness of ...
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... knowledge , and understand the teachers of truth ; if my labours afford light to the repositories of science , and add celebrity to Bacon , to Hooker , to Milton , and to Boyle . When I am animated by this wish , I look with pleasure on ...
... knowledge , and understand the teachers of truth ; if my labours afford light to the repositories of science , and add celebrity to Bacon , to Hooker , to Milton , and to Boyle . When I am animated by this wish , I look with pleasure on ...
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... knowledge and makes haste to gratify the public curiosity , there is danger lest his interest , his fear , his gratitude , or his tenderness , overpower his fidelity , and tempt him to conceal , if not to invent . There are many who ...
... knowledge and makes haste to gratify the public curiosity , there is danger lest his interest , his fear , his gratitude , or his tenderness , overpower his fidelity , and tempt him to conceal , if not to invent . There are many who ...
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Página 43 - 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...
Página 42 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Página 156 - His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void ; And sure the eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd.
Página 42 - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship.
Página 288 - 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.
Página 30 - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful ; for not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use ; but...
Página 176 - DISORDERS of intellect, answered Imlac, happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
Página 155 - Condemn'd to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave descend ; Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills Affection's eye, Obscurely wise and coarsely kind ; Nor...
Página 316 - When we see men grow old and die at a certain time one after another, from century to century, we laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong life to a thousand years; and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided who, being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in his power to change sublunary nature and clear the world...
Página 119 - Imlac,) I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth...