Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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Page 37
... principles are exposed to the trial of severe distress . All the vices of the gambler and of the beggar were blended with those of the author . The prizes in the wretched lottery of book - making were scarcely less ruinous than the ...
... principles are exposed to the trial of severe distress . All the vices of the gambler and of the beggar were blended with those of the author . The prizes in the wretched lottery of book - making were scarcely less ruinous than the ...
Page 46
... principles . ' Spain and Sicily must surely contain many pious robbers and well - principled assassins . Johnson could easily see that a roundhead who named all his children after Solomon's singers , and talked in the House of Commons ...
... principles . ' Spain and Sicily must surely contain many pious robbers and well - principled assassins . Johnson could easily see that a roundhead who named all his children after Solomon's singers , and talked in the House of Commons ...
Page 47
... principles . Johnson could easily see that those persons who looked on a dance or a laced waistcoat as sinful , deemed most ignobly of the attributes of God and of the ends of revelation . But with what a storm of invective he would ...
... principles . Johnson could easily see that those persons who looked on a dance or a laced waistcoat as sinful , deemed most ignobly of the attributes of God and of the ends of revelation . But with what a storm of invective he would ...
Page 49
... principles of their arbitrary science being once admitted , the statute - book and the reports being once assumed as the foundations of reasoning , these men must be allowed to be perfect masters of logic . But if a question arises as ...
... principles of their arbitrary science being once admitted , the statute - book and the reports being once assumed as the foundations of reasoning , these men must be allowed to be perfect masters of logic . But if a question arises as ...
Page 51
... principles . But when a deeper philosophy was required , when he under- took to pronounce judgment on the works of those great minds which yield homage only to eternal laws , ' his failure was ignominious . He criticised Pope's Epitaphs ...
... principles . But when a deeper philosophy was required , when he under- took to pronounce judgment on the works of those great minds which yield homage only to eternal laws , ' his failure was ignominious . He criticised Pope's Epitaphs ...
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