 | Samuel Johnson - 1812 - 402 pages
...are delivered rhetorically, many expressions merely tropical, and therefore many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense, and not to be called...expression: " I could be content," says he, " to be nothing almost to eternity, if I might enjoy my Saviour at the last." He has little acquaintance with the acuteness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 560 pages
...delivered rhe"• torically, many expressions merely tropical, and " therefore many things to be taken in a soft and " flexible sense, and not to be called...expression : " I could be content (says " he) to be nothing almost to eternity, if I might " enjoy my Saviour at the last." He has little acquaintance with the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 564 pages
...delivered rhe" torically, many expressions merely tropical, and " therefore many things to be taken in a soft and " flexible sense, and not to be called...expression : " I could be content (says " he) to be nothing almost to eternity, if I might " enjoy my Saviour at the last." He has little acquaintance with the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 872 pages
...delivered rhe" torically, many expressions merely tropical, and " therefore many things to be taken in a soft and •' flexible sense, and not to be called...: " I could be content (says " he.) to be nothing almost to eternity, if I might " enjoy my Saviour at the last." He has little acquaintance with the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 472 pages
...are delivered rhetorically, many expressions merely tropical, and therefore many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense, and not to be called...expression : " I could be content, (says he) to be nothing almost to eternity, if I might enjoy my Saviour at the last." He has little acquaintance with the acuteness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 470 pages
...are delivered rhetorically, many expressions merely tropical, and therefore many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense, and not to be called...expression : " I could be content, (says he) to be nothing almost to eternity, if I might enjoy my Saviour at the last." He has little acquaintance with the acuteness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 476 pages
...are delivered rhetorically, many expressions merely tropical, and therefore many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense, and not to be called...rigid test of reason." The first glance upon his book wifl indeed discover examples of this liberty of thought and expression : " I could be content, (says... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 pages
...are delivered rhetorically, many expressions merely tropical, and therefore many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense, and not to be called...expression : " I could be content (says he) to be nothing almost to eternity, if I might enjoy my Savi• Dighy's Letter to Browne, prefixed to the Religio Medici,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 542 pages
...are delivered rhetorically, many expressions merely tropical, and, therefore, many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense, and not to be called...: " I could be content," says he, " to be nothing almost to eternity, if I might enjoy my Saviour at the last." He has little acquaintance with the acuteness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 750 pages
...are delivered rhetorically, many expressions merely tropical, and therefore many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense, and not to be called...examples of this liberty of thought and expression : " 1 could be content (says he) to he nothing almost to eternity, if I might enjoy my Saviour at the... | |
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There are many things delivered rhetorically, many expressions therein merely tropical, and as they best illustrate my intention ; and therefore also there are many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense, and not to be called unto the rigid test... 
