The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen 7Nichols, 1816 |
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Página 57
... sure likewise to have her company , except she is called upon by some of her acquaintance and then , as we let out all the upper part of our house , and have only a little room backwards for ourselves , they either keep such a ...
... sure likewise to have her company , except she is called upon by some of her acquaintance and then , as we let out all the upper part of our house , and have only a little room backwards for ourselves , they either keep such a ...
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... sure , makes a market - penny out of every article . But to return to my deary . - The evenings are the only time , when it is fine weather , that I am left to myself ; for then she generally takes the child out to give it milk in the ...
... sure , makes a market - penny out of every article . But to return to my deary . - The evenings are the only time , when it is fine weather , that I am left to myself ; for then she generally takes the child out to give it milk in the ...
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... sure to have the natives for their " enemies ; for the only motive of their settle- ❝ments is avarice , and the only consequence of " their success is oppression . In this war they " acted like other barbarians , and , with a degree ...
... sure to have the natives for their " enemies ; for the only motive of their settle- ❝ments is avarice , and the only consequence of " their success is oppression . In this war they " acted like other barbarians , and , with a degree ...
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... sure that we think , why should we imagine that we have had thought of which no consciousness re- mains ? This argument , which appeals to experience , may from experience be confuted . We every day do something which we forget when it ...
... sure that we think , why should we imagine that we have had thought of which no consciousness re- mains ? This argument , which appeals to experience , may from experience be confuted . We every day do something which we forget when it ...
Página 101
... adhe- rents to the new opinion , considered as a crime ; and , when I offered myself to any mistress , I had no other answer than , Sure , child , you would not work ! hard work is not fit for a pen - woman H 3 N ° 26 . 101 THE IDLER .
... adhe- rents to the new opinion , considered as a crime ; and , when I offered myself to any mistress , I had no other answer than , Sure , child , you would not work ! hard work is not fit for a pen - woman H 3 N ° 26 . 101 THE IDLER .
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Página 310 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us, 'Tis Heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Página 315 - DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat ; As lookers-on feel most delight That least perceive a juggler's sleight, And still, the less they understand, The more...
Página 310 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Página 331 - I have no doubt but that, if we were more used to deformity than beauty, deformity would then lose the idea now annexed to it, and take that of beauty; as, if the whole world should agree that yes and no should change their meanings, yes would then deny, and no would affirm...
Página 261 - there is the following very extraordinary paragraph: " The authenticity of Clarendon's history, though printed with the sanction of one of the first Universities of the world, had not an unexpected manuscript been happily discovered, would, with the help of factious credulity, have been brought into question, by the two lowest of all human beings, a Scribbler for a party, and a Commissioner of Excise.
Página 173 - If the parts of time were not variously coloured, we should never discern their departure or succession, but should live thoughtless of the past, and careless of the future...
Página 166 - These are the great occasions which force the mind to take refuge in religion: when we have no help in ourselves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater power; and to what hope may we not raise our eyes and hearts, when we consider that the greatest power is the best. Surely there is no man who, thus afflicted, does not seek succour in the Gospel, which has brought “life and immortality to light.
Página 252 - I^HE natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety, The first labour is enforced by necessity.
Página 159 - Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. I remember a wash-ball that had a quality truly wonderful — it gave an exquisite edge to the razor.
Página 319 - ... ridiculous. Such faults may be said to be the ebullitions of genius; but at least he had this merit, that he never was insipid, and whatever passion his works may excite, they will always escape contempt. What I have had under consideration is the sublimest style, particularly that of Michael Angela, the Homer of painting.