| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...strong drink, my appetites have predominated over my reason. A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last...intelligence pass over me, without leaving any impression.' He then solemnly says, ' This is not the life to which heaven is promised' ;' and he earnestly resolves... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...strong drink, my appetites have predominated over my reason. A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last...intelligence pass over me, without leaving any impression.' He then solemnly says, ' This is not the life to which heaven is promised* ;' and he earnestly resolves... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...strong drink, my appetites have predominated over my reason. A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last...intelligence pass over me, without leaving any impression." He then solemnly says " This is not the life to which heaven is promised ;"8 and he earnestly resolves... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Meditations - 1806 - 210 pages
...strong drink, my appetites have predominated over my reason. A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last...This is not the life to which heaven is promised. I purpose to approach the altar again to-morrow. Grant, O Lord, that I may receive the Sacrament Avith... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...strong drink, my appetites have predominated over my reason. A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last...intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression." He then solemnly says, " This is not the life to which heaven is promised ;" 1 and he earnestly resolves... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...strong drink, my appetites have predominated over my reason. A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last...intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression." He then solemnly says, " This is not the life to which heaven is promised ;"|| »nd lie earnestly resolves... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...reason. A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the laut year ; and perceive that incidents and intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression." He then solemnly says, " This is not the life to which heaven is promised ;"|| and he earnestly resolves... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pages
...strong drinkmy appetites have predominated over my reason. A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last...intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression." He then solemnly says, " This is not the life to which heaven is promised;"" and he earnestly resolves... | |
| James Boswell - 1822 - 514 pages
...strong drink, my appetites have predominated over my reason. A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last...intelligence pass over me without leaving' any impression." He then solemnly says, " This is not the life lo which heaven is promised;"3 and he earnestly resolves... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 508 pages
...strong drink, my appetites have predominated over my reason. A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last...intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression." He then solemnly says, " This is not the life to which heaven is promised ; " 3 and he earnestly resolves... | |
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