Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Band 2Carey & Hart, 1843 |
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... taken the slightest pains to investigate the truth of his assertions , or if he had even been well acquainted with the very book on which he undertook to comment . We will give a few instances . Mr. Croker tells us , in a note , that ...
... taken the slightest pains to investigate the truth of his assertions , or if he had even been well acquainted with the very book on which he undertook to comment . We will give a few instances . Mr. Croker tells us , in a note , that ...
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... taken the trouble to read with attention the very passage in Park's Royal and Noble Authors , which he cites as his authority , he would have seen that the manuscript was given up to the * IV . 105. † V. 281. I. 510. § IV . 271 , 322 ...
... taken the trouble to read with attention the very passage in Park's Royal and Noble Authors , which he cites as his authority , he would have seen that the manuscript was given up to the * IV . 105. † V. 281. I. 510. § IV . 271 , 322 ...
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... taken place in 1765. Now Mrs. Thrale expressly says that it was near the beginning of her acquaintance with Johnson , in 1765 , or , at all events , not later than 1766 , that he left her table to succour his friend . Her accuracy is ...
... taken place in 1765. Now Mrs. Thrale expressly says that it was near the beginning of her acquaintance with Johnson , in 1765 , or , at all events , not later than 1766 , that he left her table to succour his friend . Her accuracy is ...
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... taken place , and , in all probability , did take place . The only real objection to the story Mr. Croker has missed . Boswell states , apparently on the best authority , that as early at least as the year 1763 , Johnson , in ...
... taken place , and , in all probability , did take place . The only real objection to the story Mr. Croker has missed . Boswell states , apparently on the best authority , that as early at least as the year 1763 , Johnson , in ...
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... taken upon himself to alter or omit passages which he con- siders as indecorous . This prudery is quite unintelligible to us . There is nothing immoral in Boswell's book - nothing which tends to inflame the passions . He sometimes uses ...
... taken upon himself to alter or omit passages which he con- siders as indecorous . This prudery is quite unintelligible to us . There is nothing immoral in Boswell's book - nothing which tends to inflame the passions . He sometimes uses ...
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Seite 357 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Seite 40 - Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years * ; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
Seite 399 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Seite 399 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Seite 399 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Seite 399 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Seite 212 - C'est pure medisance : il ne 1'a jamais e"te". Tout ce qu'il faisait, c'est qu'il etait fort obligeant, fort officieux ; et comme il se connaissait fort bien en etoffes, il en allait choisir de tous les cotes, les faisait apporter chez lui, et en donnait a ses amis pour de 1'argent.
Seite 46 - Sir Adam introduced the ancient Greeks and Romans. JOHNSON, " Sir, the mass of both of them were barbarians. The mass of every people must be barbarous where there is no printing, and consequently knowledge is not generally diffused. Knowledge is diffused among our people by the newspapers.
Seite 344 - it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.
Seite 376 - ... the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to provide man with what he requires while he continues to be man. The aim of the Platonic philosophy was to raise us far above vulgar wants. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to supply our vulgar wants. The former aim was noble ; but the latter was attainable.