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So he went along the street with her; and as they passed under a lamp, the light fell on the little girl's face. A strange sensation came over Ib, as he caught sight of it. The living, breathing embodiment of Little Christina stood before him, just as he remembered her in the days of her childhood.
The true evidence of the Bible is the Bible, of Christianity the living fact of Christianity itself, as the manifest 'archeus' or predominant of the life of the planet. Ib. p. 4. They talk much of the union of the will and understanding, but all is mere fantasy and fondness. This is the only practice in divinity.
He said, "A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean." Ib. p. 36. 'Johnson's desire to go abroad, particularly to see Italy, was very great; and he had a longing wish, too, to leave some Latin verses at the Grand Chartreux.
But I fear that as the law and right of patronage in England now are, the question had better not be stirred; lest it should be found that the true power of the keys is not, as with the Papists, in hands to which it is doubtful whether Christ committed them exclusively; but in hands to which it is certain that Christ did not commit them at all. Ib. p. 179.
As to the ineffable Trinity subsisting in this Unity, a mystery discovered only by the Sacred Scriptures, especially in the New Testament, where it is more clearly revealed than in the Old, let others boldly pry into it, if they please, while we receive it with our humble faith, and think it sufficient for us to admire and adore. Ib. Lect. XXIV. p. 245.
Thrale, with all her excellence, can give up no occasion of making sport, however unseasonable or even painful... I knew she was not to be safely trusted with anything she could turn into ridicule. Ib. ii.24 and 29. Perhaps Mr. See ante, iii.228, 404. It was the seventh anniversary of Goldsmith's death. 'Mrs. Thrale's. There was to be a fine concert, and all the fine people were to be there.
Johnson, said Parr, 'was an admirable scholar.... The classical scholar was forgotten in the great original contributor to the literature of his country. Ib. i. 164. 'Upon his correct and profound knowledge of the Latin language, he wrote, 'I have always spoken with unusual zeal and unusual confidence. Johnson's Parr, iv. 679. Mrs. Ante, iii. 172.
Garrick greatly improved by the addition of a scene, which was written with a spirit not unworthy of Shakespeare himself. Ib. p. 125. The ladies had formed themselves into a society under the title of The Shakespeare Club. They bespoke every week some favourite play of his. This revival was shown in the increasing number of readers of Shakespeare. It was in 1741 that Garrick began to act.
Though the Life of Young is by Croft, yet the critical remarks are by Johnson. Ib. p.460. Johnson refers to Chambers's Dissertation on Oriental Gardening, which was ridiculed in the Heroic Epistle. See post, under May 8, 1781, and Boswell's Hebrides, Sept. 13. Boswell refers to the death of Narcissa in the third of the Night Thoughts. While he was writing the Life of Johnson Mrs.
Rassam Cylinder, col. iv. ll. 74-76. Ib. col. vi. ll. 70-76. Rassam Cylinder, col. iii. l. 64. The favorite mutilation was the cutting off of the head. On one of the sculptured slabs from the palace of Ashurbanabal, a pyramid of heads is portrayed. The cutting off of the hands, the lips, the nose, and the male organ, as well as the flaying of the skin, were also practised.
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