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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serve everlasting punishment , nor so good as to merit being admitted into the
society of blessed spirits ; and therefore that God is graciously pleased to allow of
a middle state , where they may be purified by certain degrees of suffering .
serve everlasting punishment , nor so good as to merit being admitted into the
society of blessed spirits ; and therefore that God is graciously pleased to allow of
a middle state , where they may be purified by certain degrees of suffering .
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We do not allow our fellows to marry , because we consider academical
institutions as preparatory to a settlement in the world . It is only by being
employed as a tutor that a fellow can obtain any thing more than a livelihood . To
be sure a man ...
We do not allow our fellows to marry , because we consider academical
institutions as preparatory to a settlement in the world . It is only by being
employed as a tutor that a fellow can obtain any thing more than a livelihood . To
be sure a man ...
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Sir ( said Johnson ) , I will not allow this man to have merit . No , Sir ; what he has
is rather the contrary ; I will , indeed , allow him courage , and on this account we
so far give him credit . We have more respect for a man who robs boldly on the ...
Sir ( said Johnson ) , I will not allow this man to have merit . No , Sir ; what he has
is rather the contrary ; I will , indeed , allow him courage , and on this account we
so far give him credit . We have more respect for a man who robs boldly on the ...
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B. " But why nations ? Did his gaiety extend farther than his own nation ? " - J . “
Why , Sir , some exaggeration must be allowed . Besides , nations may be said if
we allow the Scotch to be a nation , and to have gaiety , which they have not .
B. " But why nations ? Did his gaiety extend farther than his own nation ? " - J . “
Why , Sir , some exaggeration must be allowed . Besides , nations may be said if
we allow the Scotch to be a nation , and to have gaiety , which they have not .
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He said that he had given Mrs. Montagu a catalogue of all Daniel Defoe's works
of imagination ; most , if not all of which , as well as of his other works , he
enumerated ; allowing a considerable share of merit to a man who , bred a
tradesman ...
He said that he had given Mrs. Montagu a catalogue of all Daniel Defoe's works
of imagination ; most , if not all of which , as well as of his other works , he
enumerated ; allowing a considerable share of merit to a man who , bred a
tradesman ...
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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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