The Works, Volume 3J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... Wise Men of Gotham . The Author's pen and per- son worn out in serving the state . Multiplicity of titles and dedications . : SECT . II . TALE OF A TUB . Of a Father and his Three Sons . His will , and his legacies to them . Of the ...
... Wise Men of Gotham . The Author's pen and per- son worn out in serving the state . Multiplicity of titles and dedications . : SECT . II . TALE OF A TUB . Of a Father and his Three Sons . His will , and his legacies to them . Of the ...
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... wise may deserve a rebuke . But he desires to be answer- able no farther than he is guilty , and that his faults may not be multiplied by the ignorant , the unna- tural , and uncharitable applications of those , who have neither candour ...
... wise may deserve a rebuke . But he desires to be answer- able no farther than he is guilty , and that his faults may not be multiplied by the ignorant , the unna- tural , and uncharitable applications of those , who have neither candour ...
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... wise very commendable for their labours ) to make excursions beyond their talent and their office , by pretending to point out the beauties and the faults ; which is no part of their trade , which they always fail in , which the world ...
... wise very commendable for their labours ) to make excursions beyond their talent and their office , by pretending to point out the beauties and the faults ; which is no part of their trade , which they always fail in , which the world ...
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... wise conjectures , is yet very much in the dark ; which circumstance is no disagreeable amuse- ment either to the publick or himself . The author is informed , that the bookseller has prevailed on several gentlemen to write some expla ...
... wise conjectures , is yet very much in the dark ; which circumstance is no disagreeable amuse- ment either to the publick or himself . The author is informed , that the bookseller has prevailed on several gentlemen to write some expla ...
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... wise piece of pre- sumption to inscribe these papers to your lordship , and to implore your lordship's protection of them . God and your lordship know their faults , and their merits ; for , as to my own particular , I am altoge- ther a ...
... wise piece of pre- sumption to inscribe these papers to your lordship , and to implore your lordship's protection of them . God and your lordship know their faults , and their merits ; for , as to my own particular , I am altoge- ther a ...
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Page 77 - As to his body there can be no dispute; but examine even the acquirements of his mind, you will find them all contribute in their order towards furnishing out an exact dress : to instance no more ; is not religion a cloak, honesty a pair of shoes worn out in the dirt, selflove a surtout, vanity a shirt, and conscience a pair of breeches, which, though a cover for lewdness as well ag nastinesa, is easily slipt down for the service of both...
Page 152 - Then I laid open his brain, his heart, and his spleen : but I plainly perceived at every operation, that the farther we proceeded, we found the defects increase upon us in number and bulk...
Page 68 - Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg ; but then lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.
Page 152 - Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse.
Page 129 - The most accomplished way of using books at present is two-fold: either first, to serve them as some men do lords, learn their titles exactly, and then brag of their acquaintance. Or secondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder, and politer method, to get a thorough insight into the index, by which the whole book is governed and turned, like fishes by the tail.
Page 51 - I hold fit to lay down this general maxim : whatever reader desires to have a thorough comprehension of an author's thoughts, cannot take a better method, than by putting himself into the circumstances and postures of life, that the writer was in upon every important passage, as it flowed from his pen : for this will introduce a parity, and strict correspondence of ideas, between the reader and the author.
Page 150 - But when a man's fancy gets astride on his reason; when imagination is at cuffs with the senses, and common understanding, as well as common sense, is kicked out of doors; the first proselyte he makes is himself...
Page 216 - Dulness and Vanity, Positiveness, Pedantry, and Ill-Manners. The goddess herself had claws like a cat; her head, and ears, and voice, resembled those of an ass; her teeth fallen out before, her eyes turned inward as if she...
Page 151 - ... than the colour, the shape, the size, and whatever other qualities dwell or are drawn by art upon the outward of bodies; and then comes reason officiously, with tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing, offering to demonstrate that they are not of the same consistence quite through.
Page 270 - ... a topsy-turvy creature, his animal faculties perpetually mounted on his rational, his head where his heels should be, grovelling on the earth ! and yet, with all his faults, he sets up to be a universal reformer and corrector of abuses, a remover of grievances...