The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to the Hebrides. With additions and notes, by J.W. Croker, Volumen21831 |
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Página 37
... asked Johnson what he thought of it . Johnson answered , " Warburton has most general , most scholastick learning ; Lowth is the more correct scholar . I do not know which of them calls names best . " The king was pleased to say he was ...
... asked Johnson what he thought of it . Johnson answered , " Warburton has most general , most scholastick learning ; Lowth is the more correct scholar . I do not know which of them calls names best . " The king was pleased to say he was ...
Página 38
... asked him what he thought of Dr. Hill . Johnson answered that he was an ingenious man , but had no veracity ; and immediately men- tioned , as an instance of it , an assertion of that writer , that he had seen objects magnified to a ...
... asked him what he thought of Dr. Hill . Johnson answered that he was an ingenious man , but had no veracity ; and immediately men- tioned , as an instance of it , an assertion of that writer , that he had seen objects magnified to a ...
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... asked him if it was well done now . Johnson answered , he had no reason to think that it was . The king then asked him if there were any other literary journals pub- lished in this kingdom , except the Monthly and Critical Reviews ; and ...
... asked him if it was well done now . Johnson answered , he had no reason to think that it was . The king then asked him if there were any other literary journals pub- lished in this kingdom , except the Monthly and Critical Reviews ; and ...
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... asking him what books he was reading , and , in particular , inquired as to his knowledge of the scriptures ; the prince , in his answers , gave him great satisfaction , and , as to the last , said , that part of his daily exercises was ...
... asking him what books he was reading , and , in particular , inquired as to his knowledge of the scriptures ; the prince , in his answers , gave him great satisfaction , and , as to the last , said , that part of his daily exercises was ...
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... asked him whether , as a moralist , he did not think that the practice of the law , in some degree , hurt the nice feeling of honesty . JOHNSON . " Why no , sir , if you act properly . You are not to deceive your clients with false ...
... asked him whether , as a moralist , he did not think that the practice of the law , in some degree , hurt the nice feeling of honesty . JOHNSON . " Why no , sir , if you act properly . You are not to deceive your clients with false ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 126 - 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 257 - 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 268 - 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 169 - I collated such copies as I could procure, and wished for more, but have not found the collectors of these rarities very communicative.
Página 243 - 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 209 - 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 12 - 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 161 - 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 208 - 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 91 - 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.