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Essays from the Rambler and the Idler, with Passages from the Lives of the ... - Page 17
by Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 179 pages
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...characters adorned with uniform panegyric, and not to be known from one another but by extrinsic and casu:u Ȟ L } I - j y S;h 3 / **z d " h c `/ H a ċ VW #)ۑ7}> 06l rQ [Raiiillcr, No. 60.] What I consider ns the peculiar value of the »Pope. following work, is the quantity...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with A journal of a tour to the ...

James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...characters adorned with uniform panegyrick, and not to be known from one another but by extrinsick and casual circumstances. ' Let me remember, (says...to be paid to knowledge, to virtue, and to truth."* What I consider as the peculiar value of the following work, is, the quantity that it contains of Johnson's...
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Wisdom and Genius of Dr. Samuel Johnson: Selected from His Prose Writings

Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...of characters adorned with uniform panegyric, and not to be known from one another, but by intrinsic and casual circumstances. " Let me remember," says...to be paid to knowledge, to virtue, and to truth. (Autobiography.) Those relations are commonly of most value in which the writer tells his own story....
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1880 - 488 pages
...uniform panegyric, and not to be known from one another but by extrinsic and casual eircumstances. ' Let me remember,' says Hale, ' when I find myself...to be paid to knowledge, to virtue, and to truth." [Rambler, No. 60.] What I consider as the peculiar value of the following work, is the quantity it...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with the Journal of a Tour to ...

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 742 pages
...of characters adorned with uniform panegyric, and not to be known from one another but by extrinsic and casual circumstances. ' Let me remember,' says...to be paid to knowledge, to virtue, and to truth." 1 What I consider as the peculiar value of the following work, is the quantity it contains of Johnson's...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., and the Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1885 - 490 pages
...characters adorned with uniform panegyrick, and not to be known from one another but by extrinsick and casual circumstances. ' Let me remember, (says...to be paid to knowledge, to virtue, and to truth." l What I consider as the peculiar value of the following work, is the quantity it contains of Johnson's...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 159

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1885 - 582 pages
...wish to think more nobly of humanity. While Johnson's words must still and always hold good, that ' if we owe regard to the memory of the dead, there...to be paid to knowledge, to virtue, and to truth,' we should remember too that not every form of knowledge serves either virtue or truth. We should remember...
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Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 pages
...of characters adorned with uniform panegyric, and not to be known from one another but by extrinsic and casual circumstances. ' Let me remember,' says...to be paid to knowledge, to virtue, and to truth. Rambler, NO. 60. •> • . THE necessity of complying with times, and of sparing persons, is the great...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1888 - 608 pages
...characters adorned with uniform panegyrick, and not to be known from one another but by extrinsick and casual circumstances. ' Let me remember, (says...inclined to pity a criminal, that there is likewise & pity due to the country." If we owe regard to the memory of the dead, there is yet more respect to...
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Select Essays of Dr. Johnson, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1889 - 296 pages
...of characters adorned with uniform panegyric, and not to be known from one another, but by extrinsic and casual circumstances. " Let me remember," says...to be paid to knowledge, to virtue, and to truth. 1 No. 68. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1750. Vivendum recte, cum propter plurima, tutu: his Pradpue causis,...
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