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Good English is plain , easy , and smooth in the mouth of an unaffected English
gentleman . A studied and factitious pronunciation , which requires perpetual
attention , and imposes perpetual constraint , is exceedingly disgusting . A small
...
Good English is plain , easy , and smooth in the mouth of an unaffected English
gentleman . A studied and factitious pronunciation , which requires perpetual
attention , and imposes perpetual constraint , is exceedingly disgusting . A small
...
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... and some other similar stories , but nothing which , as it would scem , Johnson
himself could believe . - Ep . ) 3 This fiction is known to have been invented by
Daniel Defoe , and was added to the second edition of the English translation of ...
... and some other similar stories , but nothing which , as it would scem , Johnson
himself could believe . - Ep . ) 3 This fiction is known to have been invented by
Daniel Defoe , and was added to the second edition of the English translation of ...
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Good English is plain , easy , and smooth in the mouth of an unaffected English
gentleman . A studied and factitious pronunciation , which requires perpetual
attention , and imposes perpetual constraint , is exceedingly disgusting . A small
...
Good English is plain , easy , and smooth in the mouth of an unaffected English
gentleman . A studied and factitious pronunciation , which requires perpetual
attention , and imposes perpetual constraint , is exceedingly disgusting . A small
...
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I subscribe to what my late truly learned and philosophical friend Mr . Crosbie
said , that the English are better animals than the Scots ; they are nearer the sun ;
their blood is richer , and more mellow : but when I humour any of them in an ...
I subscribe to what my late truly learned and philosophical friend Mr . Crosbie
said , that the English are better animals than the Scots ; they are nearer the sun ;
their blood is richer , and more mellow : but when I humour any of them in an ...
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JAMES Kerr , keeper of the records . “ Half our nation was bribed by English
money . ” JOHNSON . “ Sir , that is no defence : that makes you worse . ” Good
MR . BROWN , keeper of the advocates ' library . “ We had better say nothing
about it .
JAMES Kerr , keeper of the records . “ Half our nation was bribed by English
money . ” JOHNSON . “ Sir , that is no defence : that makes you worse . ” Good
MR . BROWN , keeper of the advocates ' library . “ We had better say nothing
about it .
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Página 122 - 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 253 - He the best player!" cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Página 264 - The teeming mother anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face: Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king.
Página 165 - I collated such copies as I could procure, and wished for more, but have not found the collectors of these rarities very communicative.
Página 239 - He was steady and inflexible in maintaining the obligations of religion and morality, both from a regard for the order of society, and from a veneration for the Great Source of all order ; correct, nay, stern in his taste ; hard to please, and easily offended ; impetuous and irritable in his temper, but of a most humane and benevolent heart...
Página 205 - Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale.
Página 8 - To omit for a year, or for a day, the most efficacious method of advancing Christianity, in compliance with any purposes that terminate on this side of the grave, is a crime of which I know not that the world has yet had an example, except in the practice of the planters of America, a race of mortals whom, I suppose, no other man wishes to resemble.
Página 157 - Road, and had carried down his books in two returned postchaises. He said he believed the farmer's family thought him an odd character, similar to that in which the Spectator appeared to his landlady and her children : he was the gentleman. Mr. Mickle, the translator of « The Lusiad,' and I went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards. He was not at home; but, having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals scrawled upon the wall...
Página 204 - Whether indeed we take him as a poet, — as a comic writer, — or as an historian, he stands in the first class." Boswell. " An historian ! my dear Sir, you surely will not rank his compilation of the Roman History, with the works of other historians of this age.
Página 87 - Why, Sir, it is a very harmless doctrine. They are of opinion that the generality of mankind are neither so obstinately wicked as to deserve everlasting punishment, nor so good as to merit being admitted into the society of blessed spirits ; and therefore that GOD is graciously pleased to allow of a middle state, where they may be purified by certain degrees of suffering. You sec, Sir, there is nothing unreasonable in this.
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| Título | The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to the Hebrides. With additions and notes, by J.W. Croker, Volumen2 The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to the Hebrides. With additions and notes, by J.W. Croker, John Wilson Croker |
| Autor | James Boswell |
| Publicado | 1831 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 3 Abr. 2006 |
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