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, Volumen2 |
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However , as Dr. Johnson once observed as to the Universities , bad practice
does not infer that the constitution is bad . The subject of the inequality of the
livings of the clergy of England , and the scanty provisions of some of the curates
, was ...
However , as Dr. Johnson once observed as to the Universities , bad practice
does not infer that the constitution is bad . The subject of the inequality of the
livings of the clergy of England , and the scanty provisions of some of the curates
, was ...
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Sir , they talk of not making boys at the University subscribe to what they do not
understand : but they ought to consider , that our Universities were founded to
bring up members for the Church of England , and we must not supply our
enemies ...
Sir , they talk of not making boys at the University subscribe to what they do not
understand : but they ought to consider , that our Universities were founded to
bring up members for the Church of England , and we must not supply our
enemies ...
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... they were merely arrangements of so many words ; and laughed at the
Universities of Oxford and Cambridge for sending forth collections of them not
only in Greek and Latin , but even in Syriac , Arabick , and other more unknown
tongues .
... they were merely arrangements of so many words ; and laughed at the
Universities of Oxford and Cambridge for sending forth collections of them not
only in Greek and Latin , but even in Syriac , Arabick , and other more unknown
tongues .
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Johnson said , “ Sir , the very reverse of this is the truth ; the English Universities
are not rich enough . Our fellowships are only sufficient to support a man during
his studies to fit him for the world , and accordingly in general they are held no ...
Johnson said , “ Sir , the very reverse of this is the truth ; the English Universities
are not rich enough . Our fellowships are only sufficient to support a man during
his studies to fit him for the world , and accordingly in general they are held no ...
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In the foreign Universities a professorship is a high thing . It is as much almost as
a man can make by his learning ; and therefore we find the most learned men
abroad are in the Universities : it is not so Our Universities are impoverished of ...
In the foreign Universities a professorship is a high thing . It is as much almost as
a man can make by his learning ; and therefore we find the most learned men
abroad are in the Universities : it is not so Our Universities are impoverished of ...
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| Título | 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, Volumen2 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, Samuel Johnson |
| Autor | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | J. Mawman, 1807 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de California |
| Digitalizado | 20 Abr. 2017 |
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