The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].W. Pickering, London; and Talboys and Wheeler, Oxford, 1825 |
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... imagination ; so it varies according to the likeness or dissimilitude of the manners of the two na- tions . Any custom or law , unheard and unthought of be- fore , strikes us with that surprise which is the effect of novelty ; but a ...
... imagination ; so it varies according to the likeness or dissimilitude of the manners of the two na- tions . Any custom or law , unheard and unthought of be- fore , strikes us with that surprise which is the effect of novelty ; but a ...
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... must confess my wonder at these relations was very great , and had been much greater , had I not often enter- tained my imagination with an instance of the like conduct in a prince of England , on an occasion that 2 LETTER ON.
... must confess my wonder at these relations was very great , and had been much greater , had I not often enter- tained my imagination with an instance of the like conduct in a prince of England , on an occasion that 2 LETTER ON.
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... imagination , so as to be much affected with every event , and to believe that he can affect others . Enthusiasm is , indeed , sufficiently contagious ; but I never found any of his readers much enamoured of the glorious Pompey , the ...
... imagination , so as to be much affected with every event , and to believe that he can affect others . Enthusiasm is , indeed , sufficiently contagious ; but I never found any of his readers much enamoured of the glorious Pompey , the ...
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... imagining , that it hinders digestion , and excites fevers . How it should have either effect , is not easily discovered ; and , if we consider the innumerable prejudices , which pre- vail concerning our own plants , we shall very ...
... imagining , that it hinders digestion , and excites fevers . How it should have either effect , is not easily discovered ; and , if we consider the innumerable prejudices , which pre- vail concerning our own plants , we shall very ...
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... imagination , which was , one day , to produce the Paradise Lost . " Mentioning Thomson , and other descriptive poets , he remarks , that writers fail in their copies , for want of ac- quaintance with originals , and justly ridicules ...
... imagination , which was , one day , to produce the Paradise Lost . " Mentioning Thomson , and other descriptive poets , he remarks , that writers fail in their copies , for want of ac- quaintance with originals , and justly ridicules ...
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Page 522 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 522 - For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...
Page 239 - That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property, and they have never ceded to any sovereign power whatever, a right to dispose of either without their consent.
Page 240 - 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 262 - If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Page 241 - But, from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the 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,...
Page 483 - God hath necessitated their contentment : but the superior ingredient and obscured part of ourselves, whereto all present felicities afford no resting contentment, will be able at last to tell us, we are more than our present selves, and evacuate such hopes in the fruition of their own accomplishments.
Page 477 - There are many things delivered rhetorically, many expressions therein merely tropical, and as they best illustrate my intention ; and therefore also there are many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense, and not to be called unto the rigid test of reason.
Page 81 - It has now been fashionable, for near half a century, to defame and vilify the house of Stuart, and to exalt and magnify the reign of Elizabeth. The Stuarts have found few apologists, for the dead cannot pay for praise; and who will, without reward, oppose the tide of popularity?
Page 430 - The first prize was fifty pounds, for which, being but newly acquainted with wealth, and thinking the influence of fifty pounds extremely great, he expected the first authors of the kingdom to appear as competitors; and offered the allotment of the prize to the universities. But, when the time came, no name was seen among the writers that had ever been seen before ; the k This was said in the beginning of the year 1781 ; and may.