Amelia (cont.) Essay on conversation. Essay on the knowledge of the characters of menJ. Johnson, 1806 |
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... soon after recovered his usual ' cheerfulness in public ; though I have reason to think he paid many a bitter sigh in private to that remembrance which neither philosophy nor Christ- ianity could expunge . 6 6 My father's advice ...
... soon after recovered his usual ' cheerfulness in public ; though I have reason to think he paid many a bitter sigh in private to that remembrance which neither philosophy nor Christ- ianity could expunge . 6 6 My father's advice ...
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... not · forget it , by the resentment which he soon disco- ' vered to both the persons whom I had named as my informers . " • Nor was it long before I had good cause 12 AMELIA . CHAP III, Continuation of Mrs Bennet's story,
... not · forget it , by the resentment which he soon disco- ' vered to both the persons whom I had named as my informers . " • Nor was it long before I had good cause 12 AMELIA . CHAP III, Continuation of Mrs Bennet's story,
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... soon • after I came to myself , pretty well , I believe , cured her surprize . She often smiled with a mixture of · contempt and anger , while she was reading it ; and having pronounced her brother to be a fool , ' she turned to me ...
... soon • after I came to myself , pretty well , I believe , cured her surprize . She often smiled with a mixture of · contempt and anger , while she was reading it ; and having pronounced her brother to be a fool , ' she turned to me ...
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... soon to speak of him with ⚫ concern . She said , he had some understanding formerly , though his passion for that vile woman had , in a great measure , obscured it ; and one day , when she was in an ill - humour with me , she had the ...
... soon to speak of him with ⚫ concern . She said , he had some understanding formerly , though his passion for that vile woman had , in a great measure , obscured it ; and one day , when she was in an ill - humour with me , she had the ...
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... soon after the bar- gain , and long before the nephew was capable of orders ; so that the uncle was obliged to give the living to a clergyman , to hold it till the young man came of proper age . • The young gentleman had not attained ...
... soon after the bar- gain , and long before the nephew was capable of orders ; so that the uncle was obliged to give the living to a clergyman , to hold it till the young man came of proper age . • The young gentleman had not attained ...
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Page 418 - But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Page 419 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Page 255 - Do you not know, * doctor, that this is as corrupt a nation as ever * existed under the sun ? And would you think of ' governing such a people by the strict principles of •
Page 421 - For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
Page 364 - Good-breeding then, or the Art of pleasing in Conversation, is expressed two different ways, viz., in our actions and our words, and our conduct in both may be reduced to that concise, comprehensive rule in Scripture: Do unto all men as you would they should do unto you.
Page 144 - The nature of man is far from being in itself evil: it abounds with benevolence, charity, and pity, coveting praise and honour, and shunning shame and disgrace. Bad education, bad habits, and bad customs, debauch our nature, and drive it headlong as it were into vice.
Page 403 - Thus while the crafty and designing part of mankind, consulting only their own separate advantage, endeavour to maintain one constant imposition on others, the whole world becomes a vast masquerade, where the greatest part appear disguised under false vizors and habits...
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