The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen8Nichols, 1816 |
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... seems to have arisen a contest , among men of genius and literature , who should most advance its honour , or best distinguish its beauties . Some have revised 66 66 66 * " It is to be hoped , nay , it is expected , that the elegant and ...
... seems to have arisen a contest , among men of genius and literature , who should most advance its honour , or best distinguish its beauties . Some have revised 66 66 66 * " It is to be hoped , nay , it is expected , that the elegant and ...
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... seems to be free , and adopts the system of Mr. Pope . " That pain is no evil , if asserted with- " regard to the individuals who suffer it , is down- right nonsense ; but if considered as it affects the " universal system , is an ...
... seems to be free , and adopts the system of Mr. Pope . " That pain is no evil , if asserted with- " regard to the individuals who suffer it , is down- right nonsense ; but if considered as it affects the " universal system , is an ...
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... seems to be esta- blished on a concession , which , if it be refused , cannot be extorted . Every reason which can be brought to prove , that there are beings of every possible sort , will prove that there is the greatest number ...
... seems to be esta- blished on a concession , which , if it be refused , cannot be extorted . Every reason which can be brought to prove , that there are beings of every possible sort , will prove that there is the greatest number ...
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... seems applicable only to fatuity , or gross dulness ; for that inferiority of understand- ing which makes one man without any other reason the slave , or tool , or property of another VOL . VIII . D FREE ENQUIRY , & c . 33.
... seems applicable only to fatuity , or gross dulness ; for that inferiority of understand- ing which makes one man without any other reason the slave , or tool , or property of another VOL . VIII . D FREE ENQUIRY , & c . 33.
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... seems not completely master of his own opinion , should have spoken more cau- tiously of Omnipotence , nor have presumed to say what it could perform , or what it could prevent . I am in doubt whether those who stand highest in the ...
... seems not completely master of his own opinion , should have spoken more cau- tiously of Omnipotence , nor have presumed to say what it could perform , or what it could prevent . I am in doubt whether those who stand highest in the ...
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Página 174 - That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property, and they have never ceded to any sovereign power whatever, a right to dispose of either without their consent.
Página 176 - That by such emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are, entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
Página 246 - And what was this book ? My readers, prepare your features for merriment. It was Cocker's Arithmetic!
Página 177 - But, from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament, as are bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America,...
Página 251 - I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of romance might have delighted to feign. I had, indeed, no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which, by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well, I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.
Página 142 - MILTON. nPO improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
Página 250 - An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from her care, and disinherited of her favours, left in its original elemental state, or quickened only with one sullen power of useless vegetation.
Página 279 - The strokes of the sickle were timed by the modulation of the harvest song, in which all their voices were united.
Página 122 - The life of a modern soldier is ill represented by heroic fiction. War has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction; pale, torpid, spiritless, and helpless; gasping and groaning unpitied, among men made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery; 160 and...
Página 390 - 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...