Excerpt: ...admitted to signify things so different, that, instead of assisting the understanding as vehicles of knowledge, they produce errour, dissention, and perplexity, because what is affirmed in one sense, is received in another. If this ambiguity sometimes embarrasses the most solemn controversies, and obscures the demonstrations of science, it may well be expected to infest the pompous periods of declaimers, whose purpose is often only to amuse with fallacies, and change the colours of truth and falsehood; or the ...
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Excerpt: ...admitted to signify things so different, that, instead of assisting the understanding as vehicles of knowledge, they produce errour, dissention, and perplexity, because what is affirmed in one sense, is received in another. If this ambiguity sometimes embarrasses the most solemn controversies, and obscures the demonstrations of science, it may well be expected to infest the pompous periods of declaimers, whose purpose is often only to amuse with fallacies, and change the colours of truth and falsehood; or the musical compositions of poets, whose style is professedly figurative, and whose art is imagined to consist in distorting words from their original meaning. There are few words of which the reader believes himself better to know the import, than of POVERTY; yet, whoever studies either the poets or philosophers, will find such an account of the condition expressed by that term as his experience or observation will not easily discover to be true. Instead of the meanness, distress, complaint, anxiety, and dependance, which have hitherto been combined in his ideas of poverty, he will read of content, innocence, and cheerfulness, of health and safety, tranquillity and freedom; of pleasures not known but to men unencumbered with possessions; and of sleep that sheds his balsamick anodynes only on the cottage. Such are the blessings to be obtained by the resignation of riches, that kings might descend from their thrones, and generals retire from a triumph, only to slumber undisturbed in the elysium of poverty. If these authors do not deceive us, nothing can be more absurd than that perpetual contest for wealth which keeps the world in commotion; nor any complaints more justly censured than those which proceed from want of the gifts of fortune, which we are taught by the great masters of moral wisdom to consider as golden shackles, by which the wearer is at once disabled and adorned; as luscious poisons which may for a time please the palate, but soon...
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Add this copy of The Works of Samuel Johnson to cart. $12.77, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2017 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.
Add this copy of The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. : a New Edition to cart. $13.56, fair condition, Sold by UHR Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hollis Center, ME, UNITED STATES, published 1825 by H.C. Carey & I. Lea, Tower & Hogan, R.J. Small, Robt. Desilver, and....
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Volume XIII. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. The book is worn and age-toned. The corners apear to be bumped. They pages themselves are age-tned and appear somewhat loose. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 250grams, ISBN:
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Volume XI. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. The book shows signs of wear and tear. The binding has been fixed somwhat. The pages are age-toned and the corners of both and the front and rear covers are bumped Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 250grams, ISBN:
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Volume XIV. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. The binding is very loose, causing the pages to be loose. The book is very worn and age-toned. the corners on both the front and rear covers are bumped Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 300grams, ISBN:
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Add this copy of The Works of Samuel Johnson (Volume 4) to cart. $22.60, fair condition, Sold by Anybook rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1825 by Talboys and Wheeler.
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Volume 4. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. With usual stamps and markings, In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Covers worn. Pages uncut. Some foxing. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 800grams, ISBN:
Add this copy of The Works of Samuel Johnson (Vol 9 of 12) to cart. $25.00, good condition, Sold by Shelley and Son Books (IOBA) rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hendersonville, NC, UNITED STATES, published 1801 by Nichols & Son.
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Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size); (Vol. 9 only of 12) Leather scuffed, edge wear, back strip chipped, hinges cracked. Book plate inside. Paper age toned with very light foxing but not brittle. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 462 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 pounds or less. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Literature & Literary. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.
