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... the reasons which hinder me from concurring with this opinion , which I am not
only inclined to favour by my respect for the authors of it , but by a natural
affection for monarchy , and a prevailing inclination to believe , that every
excellence is ...
... the reasons which hinder me from concurring with this opinion , which I am not
only inclined to favour by my respect for the authors of it , but by a natural
affection for monarchy , and a prevailing inclination to believe , that every
excellence is ...
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This answer satisfied every one but the objector , who , with an obstinacy not very
uncommon , adhered to his own opinion , though he could not defend it : and not
being able to make any reply , attempted to laugh away my argument , but ...
This answer satisfied every one but the objector , who , with an obstinacy not very
uncommon , adhered to his own opinion , though he could not defend it : and not
being able to make any reply , attempted to laugh away my argument , but ...
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If once it be discovered that , in the opinion of the Spaniards , our settlement was
usurped , our claim arbitrary , and our conduct insolent , all that has happened
will appear to follow by a natural concatenation . Doubts will produce disputes ...
If once it be discovered that , in the opinion of the Spaniards , our settlement was
usurped , our claim arbitrary , and our conduct insolent , all that has happened
will appear to follow by a natural concatenation . Doubts will produce disputes ...
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To perplex the opinion of the publick , many artifices have been used , which , as
usually happens when falsehood is to be maintained by fraud , lose their force by
, counteracting one another . The nation is sometimes to be mollified by a ...
To perplex the opinion of the publick , many artifices have been used , which , as
usually happens when falsehood is to be maintained by fraud , lose their force by
, counteracting one another . The nation is sometimes to be mollified by a ...
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I lost some of his good will , by treating a heretical writer with more regard than ,
in his opinion , a heretick could deserve . I honoured his orthodoxy , and did not
much censure his asperity . A man who has settled his opinions , does not love to
...
I lost some of his good will , by treating a heretical writer with more regard than ,
in his opinion , a heretick could deserve . I honoured his orthodoxy , and did not
much censure his asperity . A man who has settled his opinions , does not love to
...
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Seite 186 - That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property, and they have never ceded to any sovereign power whatever, a right to dispose of either without their consent.
Seite 189 - But, from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament, as are bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America,...
Seite 215 - We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties : an event, which none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? But let us interrupt a while this dream of conquest, settlement, and supremacy.
Seite 262 - I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of romance might have delighted to feign. I had, indeed, no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which, by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well, I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.
Seite 180 - In sovereignty there are no gradations. There may be limited royalty, there may be limited consulship ; but there can be no limited government. Thera must in every society be some power or other from which there is no appeal, which admits no restrictions, which pervades the whole mass of the community, regulates and adjusts all subordination, enacts laws or repeals them, erects or annuls judicatures, extends or contracts privileges, exempt itself from question or control, and bounded only by physical...
Seite 273 - Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.
Seite 404 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Seite 77 - In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness; and, in this comparison, our officers seem to lose what our soldiers gain. I know not any reason for supposing that the English officers are less willing than the French to lead ; but it is, I think, universally allowed, that the English soldiers are more willing to follow.
Seite 323 - ... dignity and hereditary power. The stranger, whose money buys him preference, considers himself as paying for all that he has, and is indifferent about the Laird's honour or safety. The commodiousness of money is indeed great ; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego.
Seite 402 - He who has not made the experiment, or who is not accustomed to require rigorous accuracy from himself, will scarcely believe how much a few hours take from certainty of knowledge and distinctness of imagery ; how the succession of objects will be broken, how separate parts will be confused, and how many particular features and discriminations will be compressed and conglobated into one gross and general idea.
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | The works of Samuel Johnson, Band 11 The works of Samuel Johnson, Samuel Johnson |
| Autor/in | Samuel Johnson |
| Veröffentlicht | 1824 |
| Original von | Oxford University |
| Digitalisiert | 21. Sept. 2006 |
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