Life and Writings, Volume 1Harper, 1860 |
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Page xii
... A Peevish Disposition tormenting to Ourselves and Others Inordinate Self - Love blinds Men to their True Character The Thought of Death the strongest Incentive to Virtue LIFE AND GENIUS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON , LL.D. WHEN the xii CONTENTS .
... A Peevish Disposition tormenting to Ourselves and Others Inordinate Self - Love blinds Men to their True Character The Thought of Death the strongest Incentive to Virtue LIFE AND GENIUS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON , LL.D. WHEN the xii CONTENTS .
Page 89
... ourselves . It is virtue , and virtue only , that can make us hap- py . " In the translation , the zeal of the Christian conspired with the warmth and energy of the poet ; but Juvenal is not eclipsed . The tragedy of Irene is founded on ...
... ourselves . It is virtue , and virtue only , that can make us hap- py . " In the translation , the zeal of the Christian conspired with the warmth and energy of the poet ; but Juvenal is not eclipsed . The tragedy of Irene is founded on ...
Page 101
... ourselves with some new prospect , and press forward again with equal eagerness . It is lucky for a man in whom this temper pre- vails when he turns his hopes upon things wholly out of his own power ; since he forbears then to ...
... ourselves with some new prospect , and press forward again with equal eagerness . It is lucky for a man in whom this temper pre- vails when he turns his hopes upon things wholly out of his own power ; since he forbears then to ...
Page 106
... ourselves from out- ward influences , and secure to our minds a state of tranquillity for though the boast of absolute inde- pendence is ridiculous and vain , yet a mean flexi- bility to every impulse , and a patient submission to the ...
... ourselves from out- ward influences , and secure to our minds a state of tranquillity for though the boast of absolute inde- pendence is ridiculous and vain , yet a mean flexi- bility to every impulse , and a patient submission to the ...
Page 115
... ourselves into a state where this life , like the next , operates only upon the reason , will reinstate religion in its just authority , even without those irradiations from above , the hope of which I have no intention to withdraw from ...
... ourselves into a state where this life , like the next , operates only upon the reason , will reinstate religion in its just authority , even without those irradiations from above , the hope of which I have no intention to withdraw from ...
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