... will be found exactly conformable to the precepts of Christianity, without any accommodation to the licentiousness and levity of the present age. I therefore look back on this part of my work with pleasure. which no [blame or praise of] man shall... The Universal Magazine - Page 1911807Full view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 316 pages
...of my work with pleasure, which no blame or praise of man shall diminish or augment.1 I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth.2 K /loxopu?... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 294 pages
...of my work with pleasure, which no blame or praise of man shall diminish or augment.1 I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth.2 Celestial... | |
| James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pages
...himself. How much better would it have been, to have ended with the prose sentence, " I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue and confidence to truth." His friend,... | |
| George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 pages
...of my work with pleasure, which no [blame or praise of] man shall diminish or augment. I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth.' The... | |
| George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 512 pages
...of my work with pleasure. which no [blame or praise of] man shall diminish or augment. I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth.' The... | |
| James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pages
...himself. How much better would it have been to have ended with the prose sentence, " I shall never imulation impair one's honesty? Is there not some danger that a lawye I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue and confident -L- to truth." His... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 pages
...of mv work with pleasure, which no blame or praise of man shall diminish or augment. I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth. Aiiruv... | |
| James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...consoles himself. How much better would it have been, to have ended with the prose sentence 'I shall never r can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky.' Talking of I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth.' His... | |
| Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pages
...of my work with pleasure, which no blame or praise of man shall diminish or augment. I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can 1 Rambler, No. 196. ยป /Wd.,No.203. D be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to... | |
| Robert Anderson - 696 pages
...of my work with pleasure, which no blame or praise of man shall diminish or augment. I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth." The... | |
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