Doctor Johnson: his religious life and his death...Richard Bentley, 1850 - 539 páginas |
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... look upon him with mental awe - they know there is an Alp in the realms of literature as well as of nature ; but they as readily decline an acquaintance with the one , as they would rather put off to a never - arriving season their ...
... look upon him with mental awe - they know there is an Alp in the realms of literature as well as of nature ; but they as readily decline an acquaintance with the one , as they would rather put off to a never - arriving season their ...
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... look with pleasure upon every act of virtue to which her instructions or example have contributed . " He holds this to be a pleasing , though not important opinion , to those who are acting under the immediate eye of God , which , of ...
... look with pleasure upon every act of virtue to which her instructions or example have contributed . " He holds this to be a pleasing , though not important opinion , to those who are acting under the immediate eye of God , which , of ...
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... look upon " the largest soul in all England , and provision made for it of fourpence halfpenny a - day . " * ( 6 Henceforward , we never find him swerving from his religious principles , beyond an occasional ebullition of temper , or ...
... look upon " the largest soul in all England , and provision made for it of fourpence halfpenny a - day . " * ( 6 Henceforward , we never find him swerving from his religious principles , beyond an occasional ebullition of temper , or ...
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... look upon him , as others have imagined him to be in literature and in society , as a sort of bear and bigot , whose failings were so great , that his virtues need not be regarded . This is the fanaticism of inconsiderate and ignorant ...
... look upon him , as others have imagined him to be in literature and in society , as a sort of bear and bigot , whose failings were so great , that his virtues need not be regarded . This is the fanaticism of inconsiderate and ignorant ...
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... look into himself , and retired from the review of life with those humbled feelings which must mortify any tendency or temptation to self - glorification in any true Christian . How careful was he as to forming rash resolutions of ...
... look into himself , and retired from the review of life with those humbled feelings which must mortify any tendency or temptation to self - glorification in any true Christian . How careful was he as to forming rash resolutions of ...
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Página 390 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 419 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Página 265 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Página 40 - For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
Página 299 - Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy : for by faith ye stand.
Página 23 - Rousseau, sir, is a very bad man. I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation, than that of any felon who has gone from the Old Bailey these many years. Yes, I should like to have him work in the plantations.
Página 17 - Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago, I desired to atone for this fault ; I went to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood for a considerable time bare-headed in the rain, on the spot where my father's stall used to stand. In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory.
Página 21 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Página 25 - Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity; and as no man is good but as he wishes the good of others, no man can be good in the highest degree, who wishes not to others the largest measures of the greatest good.
Página 275 - I can say and will say, that as a peer of parliament, — as speaker of this right honourable house, — as keeper of the great seal, — as guardian of his majesty's conscience, — as Lord High Chancellor of England, — nay, even in that character alone, in which the noble duke would think it an affront to be considered...