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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... asked Dr. Brocklesby , as a man in whom he had confi- dence , to tell him plainly whether he could re- cover . " Give me ( said he ) a direct answer . " The Doctor having first asked him , if he could bear the whole truth , which way ...
... asked Dr. Brocklesby , as a man in whom he had confi- dence , to tell him plainly whether he could re- cover . " Give me ( said he ) a direct answer . " The Doctor having first asked him , if he could bear the whole truth , which way ...
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... Could there be , he asked , upon this awful subject , such a thing as balancing of accounts ? Suppose a man who has led a good life for seven years commits an act of wickedness , and instantly dies ; will 36 TABLE TALK : Religion.
... Could there be , he asked , upon this awful subject , such a thing as balancing of accounts ? Suppose a man who has led a good life for seven years commits an act of wickedness , and instantly dies ; will 36 TABLE TALK : Religion.
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... asked , whether , although the words of some texts of Scripture seemed strong in support of the dreadful doctrine of an eternity of punishment , we might not hope that the de- nunciation was figurative , and would not literally be ...
... asked , whether , although the words of some texts of Scripture seemed strong in support of the dreadful doctrine of an eternity of punishment , we might not hope that the de- nunciation was figurative , and would not literally be ...
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... asked , " Why do you wish that , Sir ? " ED- WARDS . Because I think I should have had a much easier life than mine has been . I should have been a parson , and had a good living , like Bloxam and several others , and lived comfort- 66 ...
... asked , " Why do you wish that , Sir ? " ED- WARDS . Because I think I should have had a much easier life than mine has been . I should have been a parson , and had a good living , like Bloxam and several others , and lived comfort- 66 ...
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... asked him , what he thought of the spirit of infidelity , which was so prevalent . - J . " Sir , this gloom of infidelity , I hope , is only a tran- . sient cloud passing through the hemisphere , which will soon RELIGION . 61.
... asked him , what he thought of the spirit of infidelity , which was so prevalent . - J . " Sir , this gloom of infidelity , I hope , is only a tran- . sient cloud passing through the hemisphere , which will soon RELIGION . 61.
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