Johnson
Johnson
Johnson is a surname of English origin. The name itself is a patronym of the given name John, literally meaning "son of John". The name John derives from Latin Johannes, which is derived through Greek Ἰωάννης Iōannēs from Hebrew יוחנן Yohanan, meaning "Yahweh has favoured". The name has been extremely popular in Europe since the Christian era as a result of it being given to St John the Baptist, St John the Evangelist and nearly one thousand other Christian saints...
errors firsts facts
In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is delightful, and a pleasing error is not willingly detected.
home journey men
We found in the course of our journey the convenience of having disencumbered ourselves, by laying aside whatever we could spare; for it is not to be imagined without experience, how in climbing crags and treading bogs, and winding through narrow and obstructed passages, a little bulk will hinder, and a little weight will burden; or how often a man that has pleased himself at home with his own resolution, will, in the hour of darkness and fatigue, be content to leave behind him everything but himself.
wish impossible difficult
Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
opportunity tears tasks
To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited power: yet the opportunities which every day affords of relieving the most wretched of human beings are overlooked and neglected with equal disregard of policy and goodness.
wife gentleman unhappy
A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.
wine men giving
Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and A man should cultivate his mind so as to have that confidence and readiness without wine, which wine gives.
satisfaction anticipation
We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.
writing different praise
..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.
taught faster
Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.
together looks emotion
We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.
favour prejudice world
Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.
pride army age
To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human wisdom. The pride of wit has kept ages busy in the discussion of useless questions, and the pride of power has destroyed armies, to gain or to keep unprofitable possessions.
eye errors mind
Among other pleasing errors of young minds is the opinion of their own importance. He that has not yet remarked, how little attention his contemporaries can spare from themselves, conceives all eyes turned upon himself, and imagines everyone that approaches him to be an enemy or a follower, an admirer or a spy.
clubs certain assembly
Club: An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.