Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson, Volumen2J. Mawman, 1807 |
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... speaking , and himself shall continually gather knowledge . LONDON : Bacon's Essays . PRINTED FOR J. MAWMAN ; LONGMAN , HURST , REES , AND ORME ; LACKINGTON , ALLEN , AND CO .; VERNOR , HOOD , AND SHARPE , AND WILSON AND SPENCE , YORK ...
... speaking , and himself shall continually gather knowledge . LONDON : Bacon's Essays . PRINTED FOR J. MAWMAN ; LONGMAN , HURST , REES , AND ORME ; LACKINGTON , ALLEN , AND CO .; VERNOR , HOOD , AND SHARPE , AND WILSON AND SPENCE , YORK ...
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... speak , he might as well exclaim , ' Here am I with this cow and this grass ; what being can enjoy greater felicity ? ' Johnson once said , " A madman loves to be with people whom he fears ; not as a dog fears the lash ; but of whom he ...
... speak , he might as well exclaim , ' Here am I with this cow and this grass ; what being can enjoy greater felicity ? ' Johnson once said , " A madman loves to be with people whom he fears ; not as a dog fears the lash ; but of whom he ...
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... speaking of the inward light to which some methodists pretended , he said , it was a principle utterly incompatible with social or civil security . " If a man ( said he ) pretends to a principle of action of which I can know 38 TABLE TALK :
... speaking of the inward light to which some methodists pretended , he said , it was a principle utterly incompatible with social or civil security . " If a man ( said he ) pretends to a principle of action of which I can know 38 TABLE TALK :
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... speak the truth . " At another time Mr. B. expressed a wish to have the arguments for Christianity always in readiness , that his religious faith might be as firm and clear as any proposition whatever , so that he need not be under the ...
... speak the truth . " At another time Mr. B. expressed a wish to have the arguments for Christianity always in readiness , that his religious faith might be as firm and clear as any proposition whatever , so that he need not be under the ...
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... speak falsely , than that the miracles should be true , ' Johnson said , Why , Sir , the great dif- ficulty of proving miracles should make us very cautious in believing them . But let us consider ; although God has made Nature to ...
... speak falsely , than that the miracles should be true , ' Johnson said , Why , Sir , the great dif- ficulty of proving miracles should make us very cautious in believing them . But let us consider ; although God has made Nature to ...
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