 | Richard Jacobs - 2001 - 504 trang
...clouded with sensuality and except that from the beginning of this year I have in some measure forborn excess of strong drink my appetites have predominated...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 trang
...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 trang
...clouded with sensuality, and, except that from the beginning of this year I have in some measure forborn excess of Strong Drink, my appetites have predominated...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... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2004 - 600 trang
...April 1765, 'has sunk into grosser sluggishness, and my dissipation spread into wilder negligence. ... A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year.' Self-reproach became the signature of his life. His diary for 7 April 1776 reads: 'My reigning sin,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 2005 - 553 trang
...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 unprofitably... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 544 trang
...with sensuality ; and, except that from the beginning of this year I have, in some measure, forborne excess of strong drink, my appetites have predominated...without leaving any impression." He then solemnly sayss " This is not the life to which heaven is promised ;" and he earnestly resolves an amendment.... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1857 - 910 trang
...self-reproaches. ."My indolence," ho 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 17G5 came, and found him still in the same state. "My time," he wrote, "has been nnprofitably... | |
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A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year; and perceive that incidents and intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression. 
