The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 5Nichols and Son, 1816 |
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... knowledge , may be numbered the exact calculations of the value of life ; but whatever may be their use in traffick , they seem very little to have advanced morality . They have hitherto been rather applied to the acquișition of money ...
... knowledge , may be numbered the exact calculations of the value of life ; but whatever may be their use in traffick , they seem very little to have advanced morality . They have hitherto been rather applied to the acquișition of money ...
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... knowledge , may be num- bered the exact calculations of the value of life ; but whatever may be their use in traffick , they seem very little to have advanced morality . They have hitherto been rather applied to the acquisi- tion of ...
... knowledge , may be num- bered the exact calculations of the value of life ; but whatever may be their use in traffick , they seem very little to have advanced morality . They have hitherto been rather applied to the acquisi- tion of ...
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... Knowledge and genius are often enemies to quiet , by suggesting ideas of excellence , which men and the performances of men cannot attain . But let no man rashly determine , that his unwillingness to be pleased is a proof of under ...
... Knowledge and genius are often enemies to quiet , by suggesting ideas of excellence , which men and the performances of men cannot attain . But let no man rashly determine , that his unwillingness to be pleased is a proof of under ...
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... knowledge of nature , manners , and life , will perhaps incline you to pay some re- gard to the observations of one who has been taught to know mankind by unwelcome information , and whose opinions are the result , not of solitary con ...
... knowledge of nature , manners , and life , will perhaps incline you to pay some re- gard to the observations of one who has been taught to know mankind by unwelcome information , and whose opinions are the result , not of solitary con ...
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... knowledge , and more inclined to degrade their own character by cow- ardly submission , than to overbear or oppress us with their learning or their wit . From these men , however , if they are by kind treatment encouraged to talk ...
... knowledge , and more inclined to degrade their own character by cow- ardly submission , than to overbear or oppress us with their learning or their wit . From these men , however , if they are by kind treatment encouraged to talk ...
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Page 413 - Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 124 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 133 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 411 - No strength of man or fiercest wild beast could withstand ; Who tore the lion...
Page 82 - But thou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Page 138 - Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low? The...
Page 105 - Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity, and place, and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.
Page 107 - Adam, well may we labour still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower, Our pleasant task enjoin'd ; but, till more hands Aid us, the work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint ; what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind, One night or two with wanton growth derides, Tending to wild.
Page 48 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Page 82 - Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe, And starry pole : « Thou also mad'st the night, Maker Omnipotent! and thou the day...