The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volume 8William Durell, 1811 |
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... pleasure in subverting the reputation of Milton , which I had myself once endeavoured to exalt ; * and of which the foundation had Virorum maximus - JOANNES MILTONUS - Poeta cele- berrimus - non Angliæ modo , soli natalis , verum ...
... pleasure in subverting the reputation of Milton , which I had myself once endeavoured to exalt ; * and of which the foundation had Virorum maximus - JOANNES MILTONUS - Poeta cele- berrimus - non Angliæ modo , soli natalis , verum ...
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... pleasure , and inconveniency with advantage , which we must observe in every thing round us , we have reason to conclude , that to endue created beings with perfec- tion , that is , to produce Good exclusive of Evil , is one of those ...
... pleasure , and inconveniency with advantage , which we must observe in every thing round us , we have reason to conclude , that to endue created beings with perfec- tion , that is , to produce Good exclusive of Evil , is one of those ...
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... pleasure in the thousandth repeti- tion . " Whatever we enjoy is purely a free gift from our Creator ; but that we enjoy no more , can never sure be deemed an injury , or a just reason to question his infinite benevolence . All our ...
... pleasure in the thousandth repeti- tion . " Whatever we enjoy is purely a free gift from our Creator ; but that we enjoy no more , can never sure be deemed an injury , or a just reason to question his infinite benevolence . All our ...
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... pleasure or pain from the comparison . Pope might ask the weed , why it was less than the oak , but the weed would never ask the question for itself . The bass and treble differ only to the hearer , meanness and magnificence only to the ...
... pleasure or pain from the comparison . Pope might ask the weed , why it was less than the oak , but the weed would never ask the question for itself . The bass and treble differ only to the hearer , meanness and magnificence only to the ...
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... pleasures that arise from them , are com- monly recompensed by a more useful kind of common sense , together with a ... pleasure in being mad , which none but madmen know . Ignorance , or the want of know- ledge and literature , the ...
... pleasures that arise from them , are com- monly recompensed by a more useful kind of common sense , together with a ... pleasure in being mad , which none but madmen know . Ignorance , or the want of know- ledge and literature , the ...
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Page 162 - 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.
Page 164 - 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, without their consent.
Page 188 - His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Page 243 - These, however, are deficiencies in story, for which no man is now to be censured. It were enough, if what there is yet opportunity of examining were accurately inspected, and justly represented; but such is the laxity of Highland conversation, that the inquirer is kept in continual suspense, and by a kind of intellectual retrogradation, knows less as he hears more.
Page 132 - To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
Page 162 - That our ancestors, who first settled these colonies, were at the time of their emigration from the mother country, entitled to all the rights, liberties, and immunities of free and natural-born subjects, within the realm of England.
Page 260 - Raasay has little that can detain a traveller, except the laird and his family ; but their power wants no auxiliaries. Such a seat of hospitality, amidst the winds and waters, fills the imagination with a delightful contrariety of images. Without is the rough ocean and the rocky land, the beating billows and the howling storm : within is plenty and elegance, beauty and gaiety, the song and the dance.
Page 121 - ... outrage, for rage of defamation and audacity of falsehood. The Supporters of the Bill of Rights feel no niceties of composition, nor dexterities of sophistry; their faculties are better proportioned to the bawl of Bellas, or barbarity of Beckford; but they are told that Junius is on their side, and they are therefore sure that Junius is infallible. Those who know not whither he would lead them, resolve to follow him; and those who cannot find his meaning, hope he means rebellion.
Page 192 - We found, that by the interposition of some invisible friend, lodgings had been provided for us at the house of one of the professors, whose easy civility quickly made us forget that we were strangers; and in the whole time of our stay we were gratified by every mode of kindness, and entertained with all the elegance of lettered hospitality.
Page 250 - There was perhaps never any change of national manners so quick, so great, and so general, as that which has operated in the Highlands, by the last conquest, and the subsequent laws. We came thither too late to see what we expected, a people of peculiar appearance, and a system of antiquated life.