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... we don ' t know what to think of him . " He then rose up , strided to the fire , and
stood for some time laughing and exulting . · I told him that I had several times ,
when in Italy , seen the experiment of placing a scorpion within a circle of burning
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... we don ' t know what to think of him . " He then rose up , strided to the fire , and
stood for some time laughing and exulting . · I told him that I had several times ,
when in Italy , seen the experiment of placing a scorpion within a circle of burning
...
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Diu is , by inaccurate ears , or inaccurate pronunciation , easily confounded with
giu ; then the Italians form a substantive of the ablative of an adjective , and
thence giurno , or , as they make it , giorno ; which is readily contracted into giour
, or ...
Diu is , by inaccurate ears , or inaccurate pronunciation , easily confounded with
giu ; then the Italians form a substantive of the ablative of an adjective , and
thence giurno , or , as they make it , giorno ; which is readily contracted into giour
, or ...
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We found here Signor Martinelli ' , of Florence , authour of a History of England in
Italian , printed at London . I spoke of Allan Ramsay ' s “ Gentle Shepherd , ” in
the Scottish dialect , as the best pastoral that had ever been written ; not only ...
We found here Signor Martinelli ' , of Florence , authour of a History of England in
Italian , printed at London . I spoke of Allan Ramsay ' s “ Gentle Shepherd , ” in
the Scottish dialect , as the best pastoral that had ever been written ; not only ...
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The truth is , like the ancient Greeks and Romans , he allowed himself to look
upon all nations but his own as barbarians : not only Hibernia , and Scotland , but
Spain , Italy , and France , are attacked in the same poem . If he was particularly ...
The truth is , like the ancient Greeks and Romans , he allowed himself to look
upon all nations but his own as barbarians : not only Hibernia , and Scotland , but
Spain , Italy , and France , are attacked in the same poem . If he was particularly ...
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In every place , where there is any thing worthy of observation , there should be a
short printed directory for strangers , such as we find in all the towns of Italy , and
in some of the towns in Eng . [ It is very singular how they could miss seeing St ...
In every place , where there is any thing worthy of observation , there should be a
short printed directory for strangers , such as we find in all the towns of Italy , and
in some of the towns in Eng . [ It is very singular how they could miss seeing St ...
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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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