The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 5Nichols, 1816 |
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Samuel Johnson. incidents , cursory conversation , slight business , and casual amusements ; and therefore they have en- deavoured only to inculcate the more awful vir- tues , without condescending to regard those petty qualities , which ...
Samuel Johnson. incidents , cursory conversation , slight business , and casual amusements ; and therefore they have en- deavoured only to inculcate the more awful vir- tues , without condescending to regard those petty qualities , which ...
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... amusement of our leisure , and the solace of our exigencies ; we met together only to contrive how our approaching fortune should be enjoyed ; for in this our conversation al- ways ended , on whatever subject it began . We had none of ...
... amusement of our leisure , and the solace of our exigencies ; we met together only to contrive how our approaching fortune should be enjoyed ; for in this our conversation al- ways ended , on whatever subject it began . We had none of ...
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... amusements , without dejection of look , or inquietude of heart . It is , indeed , apparent from the constitution of the world , that there must be a time for other thoughts ; and a perpetual meditation upon the last hour , however it ...
... amusements , without dejection of look , or inquietude of heart . It is , indeed , apparent from the constitution of the world , that there must be a time for other thoughts ; and a perpetual meditation upon the last hour , however it ...
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... amusements for themselves , have more than common convictions of their own happiness . When they are condemned by the elements to retirement , and debarred from most of the diversions which are called in to assist the flight of time ...
... amusements for themselves , have more than common convictions of their own happiness . When they are condemned by the elements to retirement , and debarred from most of the diversions which are called in to assist the flight of time ...
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... amusements of more use and dignity than the common games , which not only weary the mind without improving it , but strengthen the passions of envy and avarice , and often lead to fraud and to profusion , to corruption and to ruin . It ...
... amusements of more use and dignity than the common games , which not only weary the mind without improving it , but strengthen the passions of envy and avarice , and often lead to fraud and to profusion , to corruption and to ruin . It ...
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Ajax amusements Aristotle attention beauty CAPRICE celebrated censure common considered contempt critick curiosity Dagon danger delight Demochares desire dignity diligence discover domestick elegance endeavoured envy equally excellence expected expence extempo eyes FALSEHOOD fancy favour fear February 19 flattered folly fortune frequently genius gisms gratifications happiness harmony heart Homer honour hope hopes and fears hour human idleness imagination inclined innu January 26 JUPITER justly kind knowledge labour ladies learning lence less lives look mankind March 19 ment Milton mind miscarriages nature necessary negligence ness never NUMB numbers observed once opinion OVID passed passions perhaps perpetual pleased pleasure praise precepts pride publick RAMBLER reason regard reproach ruentes SATURDAY scarcely seldom sentiments shew sometimes soon sophisms sound species spect suffer surely syllables thing thou thought tion truth TUESDAY vanity verse Virgil virtue writer
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