The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides: With Samuel Johnson, LL. D. |
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... said , he had great variety of knowledge , store of imagery , copiousness of language . Robertson . " He has wit too . " Johnson , " No , fir ; he never fucceeds there . ' Tis low ; ' tis conceit . I used to say , Burke never once made ...
... said , he had great variety of knowledge , store of imagery , copiousness of language . Robertson . " He has wit too . " Johnson , " No , fir ; he never fucceeds there . ' Tis low ; ' tis conceit . I used to say , Burke never once made ...
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... said , Man was " a two- legged animal without feathers , " upon which his rival Sage had a Cock plucked bare , and set him down in the school before all the disciples , as a " Philofophick Man . " Dr. Franklin said , Man was " a tool ...
... said , Man was " a two- legged animal without feathers , " upon which his rival Sage had a Cock plucked bare , and set him down in the school before all the disciples , as a " Philofophick Man . " Dr. Franklin said , Man was " a tool ...
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... said , he believed Burke was intended for the law ; but either had not money enough to follow it , or had not diligence enough . He faid , he could not understand how a man could apply to one thing , and not to another . Robertson said ...
... said , he believed Burke was intended for the law ; but either had not money enough to follow it , or had not diligence enough . He faid , he could not understand how a man could apply to one thing , and not to another . Robertson said ...
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... said , Whitefield had strong natu- ral eloquence , which , if cultivated , would have done great things . - Johnson . Why , fir , I take it , he was at the height of what his abilities could do , and was sensible of it . He had the ...
... said , Whitefield had strong natu- ral eloquence , which , if cultivated , would have done great things . - Johnson . Why , fir , I take it , he was at the height of what his abilities could do , and was sensible of it . He had the ...
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... said to this lady , ' What foolish talking have we had ! ' - ' Yes , ( said she , ) but while they talked , you faid nothing .'- I was struck with the reproof . How much better is the man who does any thing that is innocent , than he ...
... said to this lady , ' What foolish talking have we had ! ' - ' Yes , ( said she , ) but while they talked , you faid nothing .'- I was struck with the reproof . How much better is the man who does any thing that is innocent , than he ...
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Page 101 - Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Page 19 - Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.
Page 353 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Page 37 - 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.
Page 48 - We talked of change of manners. Dr. Johnson observed that our drinking less than our ancestors was owing to the change from ale to wine. "I remember," said he, "when all the decent people in Lichfield got drunk every night, and were not the worse thought of.
Page 342 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
Page 317 - Its merits had not escaped the notice of Dr. Johnson, though in politics opposed to much it inculcates, for in reply to an observation of Boswell in praise of the French Ana, he said, ' A few of them are good, but we have one book of that kind better than any of them — Selden's Table Talk.
Page 15 - There must always be some advantage, on one side or other; and it is better that advantage should be had by talents, than by chance. If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.
Page 7 - He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the marvellous and the mysterious, his vigorous reason examined the evidence with jealousy.
Page 173 - Tartan waistcoat with gold buttons and gold button-holes, a bluish philibeg, and Tartan hose. He had jet black hair tied behind, and was a large stately man, with a steady sensible countenance.