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affectionately American Anne believe brother Browning Byron Carlyle cents character Charles Eliot Norton Charles Godfrey Leland Charlotte Brontë charm child coffee comfortable copy correspondence DEAR SIR delight Dickens dream Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar Edited English essayist essays feel felt gentleman George give hand Harvard requirements heart Henry van Dyke honour hope Horace Greeley HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY James John Johnson Keats keep kind Lady Lafcadio Hearn letter-writers literary live Lord Lowell Madison Cawein ment mind morning never newspaper night paper perhaps pleasure poems poet poetry Pope pray pretty printed published Robert satire save the Union scholar sent Shelley sincere sister sleep sometimes suppose Sydney Smith talk taverns tell thank things Thomas Bailey Aldrich Thomas Hood thought tion to-day walk wife William WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY wine wish word write written
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Page 22 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed, though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, My lord, Your lordship's most humble, Most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON.
Page 21 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Page 21 - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
Page 68 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it...
Page 68 - Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.
Page 68 - If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not, now and here, argue against them. If there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend whose heart I have always supposed to be right. As to the policy I " seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave anyone in doubt.
Page 23 - What would you have me retract? I thought your book an imposture; I think it an imposture still. For this opinion I have given my reasons to the publick, which I here dare you to refute.
Page 15 - I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this useful invention into fashion in England; and I should not fail to write to some of our doctors very particularly about it, if I knew any one of them that I thought had virtue enough to destroy such a considerable branch of their revenue, for the good of mankind. But that distemper is too beneficial to them, not to expose to all their resentment the hardy wight (sic) that should undertake to put an end to it.
Page 11 - I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two haycocks; but his attention is somewhat diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower.
Page 4 - Think upon every word that you will speak, before you utter it, and remember how nature hath rampired l up (as it were) the tongue with teeth, lips, yea, and hair without the lips, and all betokening reins, or bridles, for the loose use of that member.