The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and additions to the first edition, المجلد 21822 |
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James Boswell Alexander Chalmers. and laid before the Lords of Session , but without suc- cess . My respected friend Lord Hailes , however , one of that honourable body , had critical sagacity enough to discover a more than ordinary hand ...
James Boswell Alexander Chalmers. and laid before the Lords of Session , but without suc- cess . My respected friend Lord Hailes , however , one of that honourable body , had critical sagacity enough to discover a more than ordinary hand ...
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... Sir , " Your most humble servant , 46 May 10 , 1774 . " SAM . JOHNSON . " " MR . BOSWELL TO DR . JOHNSON . Edinburgh , May 12 , 1774 . " LORD HAILES has begged of me to offer you his best respects , and to transmit to you specimens of ...
... Sir , " Your most humble servant , 46 May 10 , 1774 . " SAM . JOHNSON . " " MR . BOSWELL TO DR . JOHNSON . Edinburgh , May 12 , 1774 . " LORD HAILES has begged of me to offer you his best respects , and to transmit to you specimens of ...
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... Lord Hailes otherwise than with high respect . I return the sheets , to which I have done . what mischief I could ; and finding it so little , thought , not much of sending them . The narrative is clear , lively , and short . " I have ...
... Lord Hailes otherwise than with high respect . I return the sheets , to which I have done . what mischief I could ; and finding it so little , thought , not much of sending them . The narrative is clear , lively , and short . " I have ...
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... Lord Hailes's Annals of Scotland , ' are excellent . I agreed with you on every one of them . He himself objected ... Lord Hailes writes to me thus : Mr. Boswell will be pleased to express the grateful sense which Sir David ...
... Lord Hailes's Annals of Scotland , ' are excellent . I agreed with you on every one of them . He himself objected ... Lord Hailes writes to me thus : Mr. Boswell will be pleased to express the grateful sense which Sir David ...
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... Lord Hailes had it in view . I remember one morning , while he sat with you in my house , he said , that there should be a new edi- tion of Walton's Lives ; and you said that " they should be benoted a little . " This was all that ...
... Lord Hailes had it in view . I remember one morning , while he sat with you in my house , he said , that there should be a new edi- tion of Walton's Lives ; and you said that " they should be benoted a little . " This was all that ...
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الصفحة 301 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
الصفحة 207 - Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem to think; for if you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like WHALES.
الصفحة 424 - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
الصفحة 314 - He made the common remark on the unhappiness which men who have led a busy life experience, when they retire in expectation of enjoying themselves at ease, and that they generally languish for want of their habitual occupation, and wish to return to it. He mentioned as strong an instance of this as can well be imagined.
الصفحة 150 - But, Sir, in the British Constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the Crown ". JoHNSON : " Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig. — Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the Crown ? The Crown has not power enough.
الصفحة 112 - the poor in England were better provided for than in any other country of the same extent: he did not mean little Cantons, or petty Republicks. Where a great proportion of the people...
الصفحة 205 - ... that the fear of something made him resolve ; it is upon the state of his mind, after the resolution is taken, that I argue. Suppose a man either from fear, or pride, or conscience, or whatever motive, has resolved to kill himself; when once the resolution is taken, he has nothing to fear. He may then go and take the King of Prussia by the nose, at the head of his army. He cannot fear the rack, who is resolved to kill himself. When Eustace...
الصفحة 1 - Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. A peasant has not capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher.
الصفحة 211 - Yet there is no man whose company is more liked.' JOHNSON. 'To be sure, Sir. When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer, their inferiour while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.