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" The return of my birth-day, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. "
Lives of eminent persons. Letters. Prayers. Index - Page 366
by Samuel Johnson - 1801
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The Gentleman's and London Magazine: Or Monthly Chronologer, 1741-1794

1741 - 776 pages
...is my biith-day. The return ol my birthday, if I remember it, filli me wi'.h thoughts which it tmn- to be the general care of humanity to efcape. I can now look batk upon threefcore and lour year, ia which little has been done, and little has been enjoyed; a life...
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The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany, Volume 7

Books and bookselling - 1788 - 588 pages
...kindneis, has informed this family and reminded me that the 1 8th e£ September is my birth-day. The retuin of my birth-day, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it (èems to be the general care of humanity to efcape. I can now look back upon threefcore and four years,...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ...

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...Boswell, with some of his troublesome kindness, has informed this family and reminded me that the t8th of September is my birthday. The return of my birthday,...if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.' Piozzi Letters, i. 134. See ante, iii. 178. tc...
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Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: To which are ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi - Authors, English - 1788 - 626 pages
...Highland lady informed us that we might fpare our tendernefs, for fhe doubted not but the womanwho fupplied us with milk was miftrefs of thirteen or...little has been done, and little has been enjoyed; VOL. I. H a life a life diverfified by mifery, fpent part in the fluggifhnefs of penury, and part under...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 78

Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1788 - 714 pages
...lived a life, which I do not like to review : furely I (hall in time live better. — The return ofmy birth-day, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts...care of humanity to efcape. I can now look back upon three fcore and four years, in which little has been done, and little has been enjoyed ; a life diverfified...
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 65

Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1788 - 610 pages
...Bofwell, with fome of his troublefome kindnefs, has infotmed this family and reminded me that the i8th of September is my birth-day. The return of my birth-day,...remember it, fills me with thoughts which it feems to lie the general care of humanity to efcape, 1 can now look back upon threefcore and four years, in...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 560 pages
...Boswell, with some of his troublesome kindness, has informed this family, and reminded me, that the l8th of September is my birth-day. The return of my birth-day,...if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. I can now look back upon three score and four years,...
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A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Yer 1774

Samuel Johnson - Wales - 1816 - 258 pages
...made haste away from a place, where all were offended. In> Leasowes. the way we visited the Leasowes. September is my birth-day. The return of my birth-day,...if I remember it, fills me with thoughts, which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. I can now look back upon threescore and four years,...
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A diary of a journey into north Wales, in ... 1774, ed. with notes by R. Duppa

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 256 pages
...made haste away from a place, where all were offended. Jq Leasowes. the way we visited the Leasowes. September is my birth-day. The return of my birth-day, if I remember it, fills me jyith thoughts, which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. I can oow look back upon...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 476 pages
...Boswell, with some of his troublesome kindness, has informed this family, and reminded me, that the 18th of September is my birth-day. The return of my birth-day,...if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. I can now look back upon three-score and four years,...
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