The Georgian Era: Voyagers and travellers. Philosophers and men of science. AuthorsVizetelly, Branston and Company, 1834 |
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... attempt that called forth a virulent and anonymous reply from Dr. Johnson , in The Literary Maga- zine . In 1758 , and the following year , Mr. Hanway made strenuous exertions to improve the Foundling , and to es- tablish the Magdalen ...
... attempt that called forth a virulent and anonymous reply from Dr. Johnson , in The Literary Maga- zine . In 1758 , and the following year , Mr. Hanway made strenuous exertions to improve the Foundling , and to es- tablish the Magdalen ...
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... attempt at enlargement upon his public zeal and devotion un- necessary . In addition to the share he had in the formation of the institutions already mentioned , the foundation of Sunday schools is chiefly attributable to his writings ...
... attempt at enlargement upon his public zeal and devotion un- necessary . In addition to the share he had in the formation of the institutions already mentioned , the foundation of Sunday schools is chiefly attributable to his writings ...
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... attempt the remedy of them , and the introduction of a humane and equitable system . The first thing by which he was struck , was the injustice of the payment of fees on a prisoner's discharge , by which many were confined for months ...
... attempt the remedy of them , and the introduction of a humane and equitable system . The first thing by which he was struck , was the injustice of the payment of fees on a prisoner's discharge , by which many were confined for months ...
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... attempts to palliate by saying that the nature of his service required him to obtain a knowledge of their country , which he could only do by forcing it in a hostile manner , or gaining admission through the confidence and good - will ...
... attempts to palliate by saying that the nature of his service required him to obtain a knowledge of their country , which he could only do by forcing it in a hostile manner , or gaining admission through the confidence and good - will ...
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... attempted to murder him , in con- sequence of his refusal to make him an enormous present . In February , 1770 , he entered Gondar , the capital of Abyssinia , the ras of which city ap- pointed him gentleman - usher of the king's bed ...
... attempted to murder him , in con- sequence of his refusal to make him an enormous present . In February , 1770 , he entered Gondar , the capital of Abyssinia , the ras of which city ap- pointed him gentleman - usher of the king's bed ...
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Página 370 - I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Página 312 - I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel ; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
Página 144 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father ; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Página 311 - Candide, written to refute the system of Optimism, which it has accomplished with brilliant success, is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's Rasselas; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not been published so closely one after the other that there was not time for imitation, it would have been in vain to deny that the scheme of that which came latest was taken from the other.
Página 368 - After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life.
Página 307 - Porter told me, that when he was first introduced to her mother, his appearance was very forbidding: he was then lean and lank, so that his immense structure of bones was hideously striking to the eye, and the scars of the scrofula were deeply visible.
Página 307 - I had looked into a great many books, which were not commonly known at the Universities, where they seldom read any books but what are put into their hands by their tutors; so that when I came to Oxford, Dr. Adams, now master of Pembroke College, told me, I was the best qualified for the University that he had ever known come there.
Página 420 - During the last year of my residence at Cambridge, I became acquainted with Mr. Wordsworth's first publication entitled "Descriptive Sketches"; and seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original poetic genius above the literary horizon more evidently announced.
Página 385 - Thackeray, one of his masters, was wont to say of him, that he was a boy of so active a mind, that if he were left naked and friendless on Salisbury Plain, he would, nevertheless, find the road to fame and riches.
Página 314 - The doctor, having first asked him if he could bear the whole truth, which way soever it might lead, and being answered that he could, declared that, in his opinion, he could not recover without a miracle. " Then," said Johnson, " I will take no more physic, not even my opiates ; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded."^) In this resolution he persevered, and, at the same time, used only the weakest kinds of sustenance.