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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Mr. Boswell observed , that he was afraid he put into his journal too many little
incidents . - JOHNSON . “ There is nothing , Sir , too little for so little a creature as
man . It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little ...
Mr. Boswell observed , that he was afraid he put into his journal too many little
incidents . - JOHNSON . “ There is nothing , Sir , too little for so little a creature as
man . It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little ...
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This subject being resumed on another occasion , Johnson said , “ Some people
are not afraid of death , because they look upon salvation as the effect of an
absolute decree , and think they feel in themselves the marks of sanctification .
This subject being resumed on another occasion , Johnson said , “ Some people
are not afraid of death , because they look upon salvation as the effect of an
absolute decree , and think they feel in themselves the marks of sanctification .
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I ventured to tell him ( says Mr. B. ) that I had been , for moments of my life , not
afraid of death ; therefore I could suppose another man in that state of mind for a
considerable space of time . He said , he never had a moment in which death
was ...
I ventured to tell him ( says Mr. B. ) that I had been , for moments of my life , not
afraid of death ; therefore I could suppose another man in that state of mind for a
considerable space of time . He said , he never had a moment in which death
was ...
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That it is impossible not to be afraid of death ; and that those who at the time of
dying are not afraid , are not thinking of death , but of applause , or something
else , which keeps death out of their sight : so that all men are equally afraid of
death ...
That it is impossible not to be afraid of death ; and that those who at the time of
dying are not afraid , are not thinking of death , but of applause , or something
else , which keeps death out of their sight : so that all men are equally afraid of
death ...
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At the end of au act , however , he said , “ Come , let's have some more , let's go
into the slaughter - house again , Lanky ; but I am afraid there is more blood than
brains . " Yet he afterwards said , 66 When I heard you read it , I thought higher of
...
At the end of au act , however , he said , “ Come , let's have some more , let's go
into the slaughter - house again , Lanky ; but I am afraid there is more blood than
brains . " Yet he afterwards said , 66 When I heard you read it , I thought higher of
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