 Yet this man cut his own throat. The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. Now I am told the King of Prussia will say to a servant, ' Bring me a bottle of such a wine, which came in such a year ; it lies...  The British Prose Writers - Pagina 1531821Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 436 pagina’s
...with the most powerful ability and animation. JOHNSON. " Yet this man cut his own throat. The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace...servant, 'Bring me a bottle of such a wine, which came in sqph a year ; it lies in such a corner of the cellars.' I would have a man great in great things, and... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 pagina’s
...talents with the most powerful ability and animation. JOHNSON. 'Yet this man cut his own throat. The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace...in great things, and elegant in little things.' He said to me after* Henry was injured by Gilbert son [for his Scotland^ a very unusual Stuart, the malignant... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 pagina’s
...with the most powerful ability and animation. JOHNSON. ' Yet this man cut his own throat. The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace...in great things, and elegant in little things." He said to me after1 Henry was injured by Gilbert Stuart, the malignant editor of the Edinburgh Magazine... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 544 pagina’s
...with the most powerful ability and animation. JOHNSON. " Yet this man cut his own throat. The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace...such a corner of the cellars.' I would have a man to be great in great things, and elegant in little things." He said to me afterwards, when we were... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 pagina’s
...contempt of poverty, the grand-daughter of the author of Paradise Lost. works, v. 270. Mind: THE true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. . Boswell's Life of Johnson, iu. 334. • • * SUCH was the criticism to which the genius of Dryden... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 460 pagina’s
...talents, with the most powerful abilit and animation. JOHNSON. "Yet this man cut his own throat The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace...a year ; it lies in such a corner of the cellars.' poetical splendour; yet It IB certainly the nearest portrait we here of Homer, and the mori one reads... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 pagina’s
...be as constantly wound up. 3564 Hazlitt : Sketches and Essays. On Cant and Hypocrisy. The true and strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. 3565 Johnson: Boswell's Life of Johnson. III. 334. (George Birkberk Hill, Editor, 18S7.) The mind is... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pagina’s
...with the most powerful ability and animation. JOHNSON : " Yet this man cut his own throat. The true ¡n his profession. As counsel for W likes, he conducted...in such a manner as to ÜED famc aS a Sound lawyer said to me afterwards, when we were by ourselves, "Robertson was in a mighty romantic humour ; he talked... | |
 | 1891 - 556 pagina’s
...in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor. Johnson. A GREAT. The truly strong and sound mind, is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. I would have a man great in great things, and elegant in little things. Ibid. The little mind that... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 pagina’s
...nobler as it can discern, and to be depended upon by as many inferior as it can reach. Ruskin. The true, profess most are ever the least sincere. Sheridan. In religion, the sentiment is al Johnson. The True that is identical with the Divine can never be directly known by us ; we behold it... | |
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