It may be justly supposed that there was in his conversation, what appears so frequently in his letters, an affectation of familiarity with the great, an ambition of momentary equality sought and enjoyed by the neglect of those ceremonies which custom... The life of Samuel Johnson - Página 746por James Boswell - 1820Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| James Boswell - 1835 - 456 páginas
...equality, sought and enjoyed by the neglect of those ceremonies which custom has established as the barriers between one order of society and another....with helpless indignity, or endured by clemency and condescension." Various Readings in the Life of SWIFT. " Charity may be persuaded to think that it... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 590 páginas
...equality, sought and enjoyed by the neglect of those ceremonies which custom has established as the barriers between one order of society and another....never usurps what a lawful claimant may take away. ll<- that encroaches on another's dignity, puts himself in his ppwer : he is cither repelled with helpless... | |
| John Todd - 1835 - 406 páginas
...courtesy ; and, of all the situations for a noble mind to be placed in, this is the most humiliating. " A great mind disdains to hold any thing by courtesy,...never usurps what a lawful claimant may take away." Such is the testimony of one whom every student in the world reverences. Do the young men think of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 páginas
...equality •ought and enjoyed by the neglect of those ceremonies which custom has established as the condescension. Of Swift's general habits of thinking, if his letters can be supposed to afford any... | |
| Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 páginas
...his power; he is either repelled with helpless indignity, or endured by clemency and condescension. A great mind disdains to hold any thing by courtesy,...therefore never usurps what a lawful claimant may take away.—Ib. 635. The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 páginas
...equality sought and enjoyed by the neglect of those ceremonies which custom has established as the barriers between one order of society and another....with helpless indignity, or endured by clemency and condescension. Of Swift's general habits of thinking, if his letters can he supposed to afford any... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 páginas
...equality sought and enjoyed by the neglect of those ceremonies which custom has established as the rd year of his age, at a time when, according to the...course of life, much might yet have been expected from ie either repelled with helpless indignity or endured by clemency and condescension. Of Swift's general... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 páginas
...equality sought and enjoyed by the neglect of those ceremonies which custom has established as the at any time retire from all disturbance; was allowed...stand at the door of the prison, and sometimes tak admirera termed greatness of soul. But a great mind disdains to hold any thing by courtesy, and therefore... | |
| James Boswell - 1843 - 588 páginas
...equality, sought and enjoyed by the neglect of those ceremonies which custom has established as the barriers between one order of society and another....another's dignity, puts himself in his power ; he is cither repelled with helpless indignity, or endured by clemency and condescension." VARIOUS READINGS... | |
| James Boswell - 1851 - 322 páginas
...equality, sought and enjoyed by the neglect of those ceremonies which custom has established as the barriers between one order of society and another....himself and his admirers termed greatness of soul ; hut a great mind disdains to hold anything by courtesy, and therefore never usurps what a lawful... | |
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