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.

WORLD.  ‘All the complaints which are made of the world are unjust,’
iv. 172;
  ‘Poets who go round the world,’ v. 311;
  ’One may be so much a man of the world as to be nothing in the
world,’ iii. 375;
  ’The world has always a right to be regarded, ii. 74, n. 3;
  ‘This world where much is to be done, and little to be known,’
iv. 370, n. 3;
  ’That man sat down to write a book to tell the world what the
world had all his life been telling him,’ ii. 126.

WORST.  ’It may be said of the worst man that he does more good than evil,’ iii. 236.

WORTH.  ‘Worth seeing?  Yes; but not worth going to see,’ iii. 410.

WRITE.  ‘A man should begin to write soon,’ iv. 12.

WRITING.  ’I allow you may have pleasure from writing after it is over, if you have written well; but you don’t go willingly to it again,’ iv. 219.

WRITTEN.  ’I never desire to converse with a man who has written more
than he has read,’ ii. 48, n. 2;
  ’No man was ever written down but by himself (Bentley), v. 274.

WRONG.  ‘It is not probable that two people can be wrong the same way,’ iv. 5.

Y.

YELPS.  ’How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?’ iii. 201.

YES.  ‘Do you know how to say yes or no properly?’ (Swift), iv. 295, n. 5.

Z.

ZEALOUS.  ‘I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing’ (Goldsmith), iii. 376.

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