Life of Johnson, Volume 6 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 720 pages of information about Life of Johnson, Volume 6.

Life of Johnson, Volume 6 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 720 pages of information about Life of Johnson, Volume 6.

TRAVELLING.  ’When you set travelling against mere negation, against doing nothing, it is better to be sure,’ iii. 352.

TRICKS.  ‘All tricks are either knavish or childish,’ iii. 396.

TRIM.  ‘A mile may be as trim as a square yard,’ iii. 272.

TRIUMPH.  ‘It was the triumph of hope over experience,’ ii. 128.

TRUTH.  ’I considered myself as entrusted with a certain portion of
truth,’ iv. 65;
  ’Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every
other man has a right to knock him down for it,’ iv. 12;
  ’Nobody has a right to put another under such a difficulty that he
must either hurt the person by telling the truth, or hurt himself
by telling what is not truth,’ iii. 320;
  ‘Poisoning the sources of eternal truth,’ v. 42.

TUMBLING.  ’Sir, a man will no more carry the artifice of the Bar into the common intercourse of society, than a man who is paid for tumbling upon his hands will continue to tumble upon his hands when he should walk on his feet,’ ii. 48.

TURN.  ‘He had no turn to economy’ (Langton), iii, 363, n. 2.

TURNPIKE.  ’For my own part now, I consider supper as a turnpike through which one must pass in order to get to bed’ (Boswell or Edwards), iii. 306.

TURNSPIT.  ’The fellow is as awkward as a turnspit when first put into the wheel, and as sleepy as a dormouse,’ iv. 411.

TYRANNY.  ‘There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny,’ ii. 170.

U.

UNCERTAINTY.  ’After the uncertainty of all human things at Hector’s this invitation came very well,’ ii. 456.

UNCHARITABLY.  ’Who is the worse for being talked of uncharitably? iv. 97.

UNCIVIL.  ‘I did mean to be uncivil, thinking you had been uncivil,’ iii. 273;
  ’Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than
to act one,’ iv. 28.

UNDERMINED.  ‘A stout healthy old man is like a tower undermined’ (Bacon), iv. 277.

UNDERSTANDING.  ’Sir, I have found you an argument, but I am not obliged to find you an understanding,’ iv. 313;
  ’When it comes to dry understanding, man has the better
[of woman],’ iii. 52.

UNEASY.  ‘I am angry with him who makes me uneasy,’ iii.  II.

UNPLIABLE.  ’She had come late into life, and had a mighty unpliable understanding,’ v. 296.

UNSETTLE.  ’They tended to unsettle everything, and yet settled nothing,’ ii. 124.

USE.  ‘Never mind the use; do it,’ ii. 92.

V.

VACUITY.  ’I find little but dismal vacuity, neither business nor pleasure,’ iii. 380, n. 3;
  ‘Madam, I do not like to come down to vacuity,’ ii. 410.

VERSE.  ‘Verse sweetens toil’ (Gifford), v. 117.

VERSES.  ’They are the forcible verses of a man of a strong mind, but not accustomed to write verse,’ iv. 24.

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