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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... answer was , " No , no , let him mind his busi- ness . " Johnson observed , " I do not agree with him , Sir , in this . Getting money is not all å man's business ; to cultivate kindness is a valua- ble part of the business of life ...
... answer was , " No , no , let him mind his busi- ness . " Johnson observed , " I do not agree with him , Sir , in this . Getting money is not all å man's business ; to cultivate kindness is a valua- ble part of the business of life ...
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... answer . " The Doctor having first asked him , if he could bear the whole truth , which way soever it might lead , and being answered that he could , declared that in his opinion he could not recover without a miracle . " Then ( said ...
... answer . " The Doctor having first asked him , if he could bear the whole truth , which way soever it might lead , and being answered that he could , declared that in his opinion he could not recover without a miracle . " Then ( said ...
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... answer , I am not to tell a lie to prevent it . " - B . " But does not the text say , ' As the tree falls , so it must lie ? " - J . " Yes , Sir ; as the tree falls : but ( after a little pause ) — that is meant as to the general state ...
... answer , I am not to tell a lie to prevent it . " - B . " But does not the text say , ' As the tree falls , so it must lie ? " - J . " Yes , Sir ; as the tree falls : but ( after a little pause ) — that is meant as to the general state ...
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... answer all objections . You have demon- stration for a First Cause : you see he must be good as well as powerful , because there is nothing to make him otherwise , and goodness of itself is preferable . Yet you have against this , what ...
... answer all objections . You have demon- stration for a First Cause : you see he must be good as well as powerful , because there is nothing to make him otherwise , and goodness of itself is preferable . Yet you have against this , what ...
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... answer , ' I do not insist on your doing it ; you may be a very good Papist without it : I do it only as a help to my devotion . " It was observed , that the great article of Christianity was the revelation of immortality . Johnson ad ...
... answer , ' I do not insist on your doing it ; you may be a very good Papist without it : I do it only as a help to my devotion . " It was observed , that the great article of Christianity was the revelation of immortality . Johnson ad ...
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admiration afraid allow ancient appeared asked Beauclerk Beggar's Opera believe better Bishop blank verse Burke Cawston character Christian Church Church of England Church of Scotland Cibber clergyman consider conversation death Divinity eminent English expressed fear Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happiness History of China hope human Hume humour imagination infidel John Johnson observed language learning literary lived Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Camden Madam maintained mankind manner ment merit mind miracles nature neral never objections occasion once opinion passion perhaps philosophers pleased poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise punishment racter religion Scotland Scripture sermons Shakspeare shew Shiels Sir Joshua Reynolds Sir said Johnson style suppose sure talked tell Theocritus thing Thirty-nine Articles thought tion told translation true truth uneasy verse Virgil wish wonder write written wrote