 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 1052 σελίδες
...self-reproaches. " My indolance," he wrote on Easter eve in 1764, "has sunk into grosser sluggishness. A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has betome of the last year." Easter 1765 came, and found him still in the same state, " My time," he wrote,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 σελίδες
...except that from the beginning of this year I have, in some measure, forborne excess of strong drink, my appetites have predominated over my reason. A kind...solemnly says, " This is not the life to which heaven is pro' mised ;"* and he earnestly resolves on amendment. It was his custom to observe certain days with... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 480 σελίδες
...that from the beginning of this year I have, in some measure, forborne excess of strong drinks, my appetites have predominated over my reason. A kind...intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression. This is not the life to which heaven is promised." Johnson's saered days, which he dedicated to solemn... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 σελίδες
...that from the beginning of this year I have, in some measure, forborne excess of strong drinks, my appetites have predominated over my reason. A kind...intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression. This is not the life to which heaven is promised." Johnson's sacred days, which he dedicated to solemn... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1878 - 144 σελίδες
...self-reproaches. " My indolence," he wrote on Easter-eve in 1764, " has sunk into grosser sluggishness. A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year." Easter, 1765, came, and found him still in the same state. " My time," he wrote, "has been unprofitably... | |
 | Sir Leslie Stephen - 1878 - 226 σελίδες
...has spread over me," he says in April, 1764, "so that I know not what has become of the last years, and perceive that incidents and intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression." It seems, however, that he was still frequently in difficulties. Letters are preserved showing that... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 σελίδες
...deepest melancholy. He writes, " I have made no reformation ; I have lived totally useless." Again, "A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so...intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression." A lady once said to him that she could not understand why men got drunk ; she wondered how a man could... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 684 σελίδες
...self-reproaches. "My indolence," he wrote on Easter-eve, in 1764, "has sunk into grosser sluggishness. A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year." Easter, 1765, came, and found him still in the same state. "My time," he wrote, "has been unprofitably... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 498 σελίδες
...self-reproaches. " My indolence," he wrote on Easter eve in 1764, " has sunk into grosser sluggishness. A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year." Easter 1765 came, and found him still in the same state. " My time," he wrote, " has been unprofitably... | |
 | 1880 - 556 σελίδες
...has spread over me," he says in April, 1764, "so that I know not what has become of the last years, and perceive that incidents and intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression." It seems, however, that he was still frequently in difficulties. Letters are preserved showing that... | |
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A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year; and perceive that incidents and intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression. 
