![]() ![]() Johnson's observation in Rambler 28 neatly summarizes the argument that underlies almost every one of his 201 Rambler essays, which appeared twice-weekly between March 1750 and March 1752. never thought it would mean volunteering for an ambush party. had some ideas as to how this might happen, acts of impulse like going after a wounded man, jumping on a grenade, other things he'd heard about and read about, and in which he thought he recognized the possibilities of his own nature. It could mean getting himself hurt or even killed. He had been forced to surrender certain pictures of himself that had once given him pride and a serene sense of entitlement to his existence, but the one picture he had not given up, and which had become essential to him, was the picture of himself as a man who would do anything for a friend. ![]() ![]() If it be reasonable to estimate the difficulty of any enterprise by frequent miscarriages, it may justly be concluded that it is not easy for a man to know himself for wheresoever we turn our view, we shall find almost all with whom we converse so nearly as to judge of their sentiments, indulging more favourable conceptions of their own virtue than they have been able to impress upon others, and congratulating themselves upon degrees of excellence, which their fondest admirers cannot allow them to have attained. ![]()
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