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" I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would spare my understanding. This prayer, that I might try the integrity of my faculties, I made in Latin verse. The lines were not very good, but I knew them not to be very good:... "
Classical English letter-writer: or, Epistolary selections designed to ... - Página 263
de Frank Elizabeth - 1814
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Life and Conversations of Dr. Samuel Johnson: (founded Chiefly Upon Boswell).

Alexander Main - 1874 - 480 páginas
...remains as it was: but such an attack produces solicitude for the safety of every faculty." " I prayed God that however He might afflict my body, He would spare my understanding." Let the reader mark that: it is not death this man fears—it is dissolution he shrinks from. Samuel...
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Dr. Johnson, His Friends and His Critics

George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 386 páginas
...In describing afterwards how the paralytic stroke fell upon him, he says, 'I was alarmed, and prayed God that, however he might afflict my body, he would...knew them not to be very good. I made them easily.' That very evening before he had retired he felt himself, he writes, 'light and easy, and began to plan...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a ..., Volumen 3

James Boswell - 1884 - 658 páginas
...indistinctness in my head, which lasted, I suppose, about half a minute. I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would...concluded myself to be unimpaired in my faculties. 1 Vol. ii., p. 268 of Mrs. Thrale's collection. • To Miss Reynolds.— Croker. " Soon after I perceived...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with The journal of a ..., Volumen 3

James Boswell - 1884 - 626 páginas
...indistinctness in my head, which lasted, I suppose, about half a minute. I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would...verse. The lines were not very good, but I knew them rot to be very good: I made them easily, and concluded myself to be unimpaired in my faculties. " Soon...
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The Contemporary Review, Volumen 47

1885 - 932 páginas
...I felt a confusion in my head which lasted I suppose about half a minute; I was alarmed and prayed God that however He might afflict my body He would spare my understanding Soon after I perceived that I had suffered a paralytic stroke and that my speech was taken from me....
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volumen 4

James Boswell - 1889 - 460 páginas
...indistinctness in my head, which lasted, 1 suppose, about half a minute. I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would...to be unimpaired in my faculties. '• Soon after 1 perceived that I had suffered a paralytic stroke, and that my spt-eeh was taken from me. T had no...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volumen 4

James Boswell - 1891 - 548 páginas
...indistinctness in my head, which lasted, I suppose, about half a minute. I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would...try the integrity of my faculties, I made in Latin 1 Vol. ii. p. 268, of Mrs. Thrale's Collection. BOSWELL. The beginning of the letter is very touching:...
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Text-book of the Principles and Practice of Medicine, Volumen 1

Charles Hilton Fagge, Philip Henry Pye-Smith - 1891 - 1206 páginas
...in my which lasted, I suppose, ahout half a minute. I was alarmed, and prayed God that, bo«¥v«r He might afflict my body, He would spare my understanding. This prayer, that I mi , amnesia indicates the existence of a lesion extending beyond the limits of Broca's region. Dr...
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Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volumen 2

Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 492 páginas
...and indistinctness in my head, which lasted I suppose about half a minute ; I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would...try the integrity of my faculties, I made in Latin verse1. )The lines were not very good, but I knew them not to be very good : I made them easily, and...
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The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science ..., Volumen 12

1901 - 628 páginas
...and indistinctness in my head, which lasted I suppose about half a minute. I was alarmed, and prayed God that however he might afflict my body, he would...concluded myself to be unimpaired in my faculties. own apathy ; and considered that perhaps death itself, when it should come, would excite less horror...
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