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...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether...

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...Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life and Adventures of Martin... ...s A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylva- ... ...and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...lous or wrong at home, so I then hoped that the good-humored people of the United States would not be generally disposed to quarrel with me for carryi... ... wrong at home, so I then hoped that the good-humored people of the United States would not be generally disposed to quarrel with me for carrying the ... ...malicious fury; for not content with driving them abroad, it charged small parties of them and hunted them into the wheel wright’s saw-pit, and below ... ..., of him who least deserves it. There would be madness, Tom!’ Mr Pinch had listened to all this with looks of bewilderment, which seemed to be in part... ... fifteenth of last month when he couldn’t meet a little bill and the other party wouldn’t renew, which would have done honour to Napoleon Bonaparte in... ...t grotesque of apes, or morally, as the mildest Nimrod among tuft- hunting republicans! ‘In short,’ said Mr Norris the father, settling the question c...

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...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of gr...

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...ridged and Edited, with an Introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Bosw... ...Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Ch... ...dited with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furnish... ...mmond observed him at the ca- thedral perched upon his father’s shoulders, listening and gaping at the much celebrated preacher. Mr. Hammond asked Mr.... ...ith contempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him and ... ... had seen life in all its vari- eties, and been much in the company of the statesmen and wits of his time, he could com- municate to Johnson an abunda... ... and Bolingbroke; and Warburton and Mallet were the leaders of the several parties. Mr. Burney asked him then if he had seen Warburton’s book against ... ...l known to many to be par- ticularly unsocial, as there is no Ordinary, or united company, but each person has his own mess, and is under no obligatio... ...nd he Sam. Johnson. Sir, there is one Mrs. Macaulay* in this town, a great republican. One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave counte- ...