| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1900 - 680 páginas
...self-reproaches. " My indolence," he wrote on Easter Eve in 1764, " has sunk into grosser sluggishness. A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year." Easter, 1765, came, and found him still in the same state. " My time," he wrote, " has been unprofitably... | |
| 1900 - 674 páginas
...has spread over me," he says in April, 1764, "so that I know not what has become of the last years, and perceive that incidents and intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression." It seems, however, that he was still frequently in difficulties. Letters are preserved showing that... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1902 - 130 páginas
...to wine and meat." And on the following day he added : " A kind of strange oblivion has overpowered me, so that I know not what has become of the last...This is not the life to which Heaven is promised. ' ' Boswell attributes the increased indolence out of which this distress came in part to the independence... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 724 páginas
...has spread over me," he says in April, 1764, "so that I know not what has become of the last years, and perceive that incidents and intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression." It seems, however, that he was still frequently in difficulties. Letters are preserved showing that... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 146 páginas
...self-reproaches. " My indolence," he wrote on Easter eve in 1 764, " has sunk into grosser 30 sluggishness. A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year." Easter 1765 came, and found him still in the same state. " My time," he wrote, " has been unprofitably... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 294 páginas
...self-reproaches. "My indolence," he wrote on Easter Eve in 1764, "has sunk into grosser sluggishness. A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what 5 has become of the last year." Easter, 1765, came, and found him still in the same state. "My time,"... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 136 páginas
...Easter eve in 1764, "has sunk into grosser sluggishness. A kind of strange oblivion has over- 10 spread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year." Easter 1765 came, and found him still in the same state. " My time," he wrote, " has been unprofitably... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 152 páginas
...Easter eve in 1764, "has sunk into grosser sluggishness. A kind of strange oblivion has over- 10 spread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year." Easter 1765 came, and found him still in the same state. " My time," he wrote, " has been unprofitably... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1904 - 136 páginas
...Easter eve in 1764, "has sunk into grosser sluggishness. A kind of strange oblivion has over- 10 spread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year." Easter 1765 came, and found him still in the same state. " My time," he wrote, " has been unprofitably... | |
| James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 páginas
...with sensuality ; and, except that from the beginning of this year I have, in some measure, forborne ick, who 1 I fully intended to have followed a He then solemnly says, ' This is not the life to which heaven is promised 2 ; ' and he earnestly resolves... | |
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