The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The ramblerT. Longman, B. White and Son, B. Law, J. Dodsley, H. Baldwin, J. Robson, J Johnson, C. Dilly, T. Vernor, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, J. Nichols, R. Baldwin, N. Conant, P. Elmsly, F. and C. Rivington, T. Payne, W. Goldsmith, R. Faulder, Leigh and Sotheby, G. Nicol, J. Murray, A. Strahan, W. Lowndes, T. Evans, W. Bent, S. Hayes, G. and T. Wilkie, T. and J. Egerton, W. Fox, P. M.'Queen, Ogilvie and Speale, Darton and Harvey, G. and C. Kearsley, W. Millar, B. C. Collins, and E. Newbery., 1792 |
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... knowledge 151 The climactericks of the mind 7 14 22 28 33 39 45 51 57 63 152 Criticism on epiftolary writings 69 153 The treatment incurred by loss of fortune 75 154 The inefficacy of genius without learning 82 155 The usefulness of ...
... knowledge 151 The climactericks of the mind 7 14 22 28 33 39 45 51 57 63 152 Criticism on epiftolary writings 69 153 The treatment incurred by loss of fortune 75 154 The inefficacy of genius without learning 82 155 The usefulness of ...
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... knowledge of the town 316 196 Human opinions mutable . The hopes of youth falla- cious 322 197 The hiftory of a legacy - hunter 327 198 The legacy - hunter's hiftory concluded 332 199 The virtues of Rabbi Abraham's magnet 200 Afper's ...
... knowledge of the town 316 196 Human opinions mutable . The hopes of youth falla- cious 322 197 The hiftory of a legacy - hunter 327 198 The legacy - hunter's hiftory concluded 332 199 The virtues of Rabbi Abraham's magnet 200 Afper's ...
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... knowledge 151 The climactericks of the mind Page 7 14 22 28 33 39 45 51 57 63 152 Criticism on epiftolary writings 69 153 The treatment incurred by lofs of fortune 75 154 The inefficacy of genius without learning 82 155 The usefulness ...
... knowledge 151 The climactericks of the mind Page 7 14 22 28 33 39 45 51 57 63 152 Criticism on epiftolary writings 69 153 The treatment incurred by lofs of fortune 75 154 The inefficacy of genius without learning 82 155 The usefulness ...
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... knowledge of the town 316 196 Human opinions mutable . The hopes of youth falla- cious 322 197 The hiftory of a legacy - hunter 327 198 The legacy - hunter's history concluded 332 199 The virtues of Rabbi Abraham's magnet 339 200 ...
... knowledge of the town 316 196 Human opinions mutable . The hopes of youth falla- cious 322 197 The hiftory of a legacy - hunter 327 198 The legacy - hunter's history concluded 332 199 The virtues of Rabbi Abraham's magnet 339 200 ...
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... knowledge , brings diftant ideas unexpectedly together , who by fome peculiar acute- ness discovers resemblance in objects diffimilar to common eyes , or by mixing heterogeneous notions dazzles the attention with fudden fcintillations ...
... knowledge , brings diftant ideas unexpectedly together , who by fome peculiar acute- ness discovers resemblance in objects diffimilar to common eyes , or by mixing heterogeneous notions dazzles the attention with fudden fcintillations ...
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Pagina 186 - We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered ; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind.
Pagina 207 - ... what are the appearances that thus powerfully excite his risibility, he will find among them neither poverty nor disease, nor any involuntary or painful defect. The disposition to derision and insult...
Pagina 377 - I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth.
Pagina 339 - It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard ; to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.
Pagina 80 - Of two heroes acting in confederacy agatnft a common enemy, the virtues or dangers will give little emotion, becaufe each claims our concern with the fame right, and the heart lies at reft between equal motives. It ought to be the firft endeavour of a writer to...
Pagina 376 - The essays professedly serious, if I have been able to execute my own intentions, will be found exactly conformable to the precepts of Christianity, without any accommodation to the licentiousness and levity of the present age.
Pagina 78 - Is it not certain that the tragic and comic affections have been moved alternately, with equal force, and that no plays have oftener filled the eye with tears, and the breast with palpitation, than those which are variegated with interludes of mirth ? I do not however think it safe to judge of works of genius, merely by the event.
Pagina 146 - Come, thick night ! And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes ; Nor heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold...