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It has been translated into most of the European languages. See ante, i. 222, note 1; iii. 13, note 3; and iv. 330. Lucretius, iii. 6. It were to be wished, that he had imitated that great man in every respect, and had not followed the example of Dr.
Johnson, on account of the unhappy difference in their politicks, upon my repeating this passage to him, exclaimed 'Oil of vitriol ! BOSWELL. Psalms, cxli. 5. 'We all love Beattie, he had said. Ante, ii. 148. This, I find, is a Scotticism.
See ante, i. 398, post, Dec. 1784, where Johnson, on his death-bed, recommended Clarke's Sermons; and Boswell's Hebrides, Oct. 5. Boswell took Ogden's Sermons with him to the Hebrides, but Johnson showed no great eagerness to read them. See Boswell's Hebrides, Aug. 15 and 32. See ante, p. 223. King Lear, act iii. sc. 4. The Duke of Marlborough.
Madan's Tract was published in the winter of 1784-5. Boswell's fondness for seeing executions is shewn, ante, ii. 93. See ante, ii. 82, 104; iii. 290; and v. 7l. A friend of mine happened to be passing by a field congregation in the environs of London, when a Methodist preacher quoted this passage with triumph.
Gentlemen, I need not tell you what a treaty is it is a thing in itself to be obeyed; but it is all important to know what it commands. Well, what was this said treaty? That John should come in and out of the ports, on the footing of the most favoured nation; on the statu quo ante bellum principle, as Vattel has it.
He was impressed with the superiority of Johnson, and his knocking everybody down in argument. C.R. Leslie's Recollections, i. 146. See Boswell's Hebrides, Sept. 28. See ante, i. 433, and ii. 217, 358. Johnson and Mrs. Dingley, to whom he knew that whatever befell him was interesting, and no accounts could be too minute.
At the outbreak of the war in the autumn of 1912 the Balkan States had observed all the conventions, disavowing designs of territorial aggrandizement and proclaiming their resolve merely to obtain guarantees for the better treatment of the Christian inhabitants of Macedonia; the powers, for their part, duly admonished the naughty children of south-eastern Europe to the effect that no alteration of the territorial status quo ante would under any circumstances be tolerated.
"If speech it may be called, that speech is none Distinguishable in number, mood, or tense," is understood with no very laborious application. Piozzi Letters, ii. 91. See Boswell's Hebrides, Oct. 18. See Boswell's Hebrides, Sept. 26. See ante, iii. 88, note 1. The Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty, with whom she lived seventeen years, and by whom she had nine children. Ann.
See ante, iii. 248. See ante, iv. 295, where Boswell asked Johnson 'if he would not have done more good if he had been more gentle. JOHNSON. 'No, Sir; I have done more good as I am. Obscenity and impiety have always been repressed in my company. 'Mr.
Johnson and Boswell travelled to Oxford with him in March, 1776. Ante, ii. 438. In 1778 he got into some difficulties, in which Johnson tried to help him, as is shewn by the following autograph letter in the possession of my friend Mr. M. M. Holloway: 'Poor Mr.
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