| James Boswell - 1910 - 602 σελίδες
...forborne excess of strong drink, my appetites have predominated over my reason. A kind of strange ohljyion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become...leaving any impression." He then solemnly says, " This ig not the life to which heaven is promised ;" * and he earnestly resolves on amendment. It was his... | |
| Carlo Formichi - 1925 - 518 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 unprofltably... | |
| James Boswell - 1928 - 670 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 of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that 1 know not what has become of the last year ; and perceive that incidents and intelligence pass over... | |
| Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 σελίδες
...prayer of 21 April 1764 in the following way: "A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so thai I know not what has become of the last year, and perceive...intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression." It was during this period that he purchased the famous lock and fetters to control himself if he felt... | |
| Willard Spiegelman - 1995 - 234 σελίδες
..."My indolence, since my last reception of the Sacrament, has sunk into grosser sluggishness . . . my appetites have predominated over my reason. A kind...me, so that I know not what has become of the last year."31 As early as 1729 Johnson heroically attempted to defend himself against what was to become... | |
| James Boswell - 1998 - 1540 σελίδες
...forborne excess of strong drink, my appetites have predominated over my reason. A kind of strange ohlivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become...solemnly says, 'This is not the life to which heaven is promised;'1 and he earnestly resolves on amendment. It was his custom to observe certain days with... | |
| Allan Ingram - 1998 - 302 σελίδες
...ordinances to morrow. Trust in God O my soul. O God let me trust in Thee. excess of Strong Drink my appetites have predominated over my reason. A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that incidents and intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression. This is not the life to which... | |
| Richard Jacobs - 2001 - 504 σελίδες
...except that from the beginning of this year I have in some measure forborn excess of strong drink 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. 168 JOHNSON AND OTHERS In September of the same year,... | |
| Sarah Jordan - 2003 - 308 σελίδες
...Sacrament, has sunk into grosser sluggishness, and my dissipation spread into wilder negligence. . . . A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that...intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression. 153 Since the last Easter I have reformed no evil habit, my time has been unprofitably spent, and seems... | |
| William F. Bynum, Roy Porter, Michael Shepherd - 2003 - 352 σελίδες
...except that from the beginning of this year I have in some measure forborn excess of Strong Drink, my appetites have predominated over my reason. A kind...me, so that I know not what has become of the last year.'85 'My reigning sin, to which perhaps many others are appendent, is waste of time, and general... | |
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