The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.G. Walker ... [and 9 others], 1820 |
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... gaining the first prize in the fourth class , he was raised to the fifth ; and in six months more , upon the same proof of the superiority of his genius , rewarded with another prize , and translated to the sixth ; from whence it is ...
... gaining the first prize in the fourth class , he was raised to the fifth ; and in six months more , upon the same proof of the superiority of his genius , rewarded with another prize , and translated to the sixth ; from whence it is ...
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... gained another prize . He was now to quit the school for the university , but , on account of the weakness yet remaining in his thigh , was , at his own entreaty , continued six months longer under the care of his master , the learned ...
... gained another prize . He was now to quit the school for the university , but , on account of the weakness yet remaining in his thigh , was , at his own entreaty , continued six months longer under the care of his master , the learned ...
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... gaining a complete knowledge of medicine by way of digression from theological studies , would have been little less than madness in most men , and would have only exposed them to ridicule and contempt . But Boerhaave was one of those ...
... gaining a complete knowledge of medicine by way of digression from theological studies , would have been little less than madness in most men , and would have only exposed them to ridicule and contempt . But Boerhaave was one of those ...
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... gained , " that he should think himself sufficiently compensated , if his adversary received no farther molestation on his account . " So far was this weak and injudicious attack from shaking a reputation not casually raised by fashion ...
... gained , " that he should think himself sufficiently compensated , if his adversary received no farther molestation on his account . " So far was this weak and injudicious attack from shaking a reputation not casually raised by fashion ...
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... loss only of two ships of force , and four small frigates , but with his whole fleet much shattered . Nor was the victory gained at a cheap rate , notwithstanding the unusual disproportion of strength ; for of the Dutch flag - 50 BLAKE .
... loss only of two ships of force , and four small frigates , but with his whole fleet much shattered . Nor was the victory gained at a cheap rate , notwithstanding the unusual disproportion of strength ; for of the Dutch flag - 50 BLAKE .
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Page 455 - ... commemoration available to the confirmation of my faith, the establishment of my hope, and the enlargement of my charity; and make the death of thy Son JESUS CHRIST effectual to my redemption. Have mercy upon me, and pardon the multitude of my offences. Bless my friends ; have mercy upon all men. Support me, by thy Holy Spirit, in the days of weakness, and at the hour of death ; and receive me, at my death, to everlasting happiness, for the sake of JESUS CHRIST. Amen.
Page 338 - I cannot forbear to mention, that neither reason nor revelation denies you to hope, that you may increase her happiness, by obeying her precepts ; and that she may, in her present state, look, with pleasure, upon every act of virtue, to which her instructions or example have contributed.
Page 288 - It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain...
Page 446 - JESUS CHRIST'S sake; to whom with thee and the HOLY GHOST, three persons and one GOD, be all honour and glory, world without end, Amen."1 BOSWELL. " Pray, Mr. Dilly, how does Dr. Leland's History of Ireland sell...
Page 444 - I am afraid however that my counsel is vain, yet I have eased my heart by giving it. When Queen Mary took the resolution of sheltering herself in England, the Archbishop of St. Andrew's, attempting to dissuade her, attended on her journey; and when they came to the irremeable...
Page 308 - His style is, indeed, a tissue of many languages ; a mixture of heterogeneous words, brought together from distant regions, with terms originally appropriated to one art, and drawn by violence into the service of another. He must however be confessed to have augmented our philosophical diction : and in defence of his uncommon words and expressions, we must consider, that he had uncommon sentiments, and was not content to express in many words that idea for which any language could supply a single...
Page 60 - He was the first man who brought the ships to contemn castles on shore, which had been thought ever very formidable, and were discovered by him to make a noise only, and to fright those who could rarely be hurt by them. He was the first that infused that proportion of courage into the seamen, by making them see by experience what mighty things they could do if they were resolved...
Page 284 - ... and had^[ lately declared, that " the whole world was made for man, " but only the twelfth part of man for woman ;" and, that " man is the whole world, but woman only " the rib or crooked part of man.
Page 378 - The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Page 216 - London, for a guinea a week. He was afterwards raised to the office of clerk of the franks, in which he acted with great spirit and firmness ; and often stopped franks, which were given by members of parliament to their friends, because he thought such extension of a peculiar right illegal. This raised many complaints, and having stopped, among others, a frank given to the old duchess of Marlborough by Mr.