Memoirs of the Life of Gilbert Wakefield, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1804 |
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... spirit of evangelical benevolence , a con- sciousness of intellectual mediocrity and im- perfect virtue , have disposed me , I hope , to decide with kindness on the conduct of others , and with justice on my own ; and have in a great ...
... spirit of evangelical benevolence , a con- sciousness of intellectual mediocrity and im- perfect virtue , have disposed me , I hope , to decide with kindness on the conduct of others , and with justice on my own ; and have in a great ...
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... spirit . What youth laid on a rosy bed , With odours flowing round his head , In a cool grot does you caress ? For whom do you , deluding fair ! Adjust your head , and plait your hair , And so genteelly dress ? Alas ! how often will he ...
... spirit . What youth laid on a rosy bed , With odours flowing round his head , In a cool grot does you caress ? For whom do you , deluding fair ! Adjust your head , and plait your hair , And so genteelly dress ? Alas ! how often will he ...
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... spirits , by an unnatural coercion of the gaiety and ac- tivity , congenial with those years , and is cal- culated , by an immediate and powerful ten- dency , to inspire an abhorrence of learning never to be done away in future life ...
... spirits , by an unnatural coercion of the gaiety and ac- tivity , congenial with those years , and is cal- culated , by an immediate and powerful ten- dency , to inspire an abhorrence of learning never to be done away in future life ...
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... spirit bade the waters flow . " Boswell , speaking of one of their journeys to Oxford , says , by way of encomium , " He ( Dr. Johnson ) bore the journey very well , and seemed to feel himself elevated , as he approached Oxford , that ...
... spirit bade the waters flow . " Boswell , speaking of one of their journeys to Oxford , says , by way of encomium , " He ( Dr. Johnson ) bore the journey very well , and seemed to feel himself elevated , as he approached Oxford , that ...
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... spirit among themselves ; and for this purpose at- tempted to introduce public examinations . The measure met with some resistance , and of course is not entirely calculated to produce all the benefits desired by the first proposers ...
... spirit among themselves ; and for this purpose at- tempted to introduce public examinations . The measure met with some resistance , and of course is not entirely calculated to produce all the benefits desired by the first proposers ...
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Page 309 - One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
Page 345 - People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can be best taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymistry by lectures : — You might teach- making of shoes by lectures...
Page 335 - TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.
Page 122 - ... the church; to whose service, by the intentions of my parents and friends, I was destined of a child, and in mine own resolutions, till coming to some maturity of years, and perceiving what tyranny had invaded the church, that he who would take orders must subscribe slave, and take an oath...
Page 45 - Nutrita faustis sub penetralibus Posset, quid Augusti paternus In pueros animus Nerones. Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis ; Est in juvencis, est in equis patrum Virtus...
Page 121 - Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? 49 But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.
Page 308 - Lift the faint head, and bend the imploring eye; Till Death, in kindness, from the tortured breast Calls the free spirit to the realms of rest. Shame to Mankind! But shame to BRITONS most, Who all the sweets of Liberty can boast; Yet, deaf to every human claim, deny That bliss to others, which themselves enjoy: Life's bitter draught with harsher bitter fill; Blast every joy, and add to every ill; The trembling limbs with galling iron bind, Nor loose the heavier bondage of the mind.
Page 122 - ... coming to some maturity of years and perceiving what tyranny had invaded the Church, that he who would take Orders must subscribe slave, and take an oath withal, which unless he took with a conscience that would retch he must either straight perjure, or split his faith, I thought it better to prefer a blameless silence before the sacred office of speaking bought, and begun with servitude and forswearing.
Page 539 - And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover Sighing like furnace, with a woful ballad Made to his mistress
Page 73 - ... pursuit of it, if he does not excite our astonishment by the rapidity of his strides, he, at least, secures our confidence by the firmness of his step. To the examination of positions advanced by other men, he always brought a mind, which neither prepossession had seduced, nor malevolence polluted.