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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... better than admiration - judgment to estimate things at their true value . ” — I still insisted ( says Mr. Bos- well ) that admiration was more pleasing than judgment , as love is more pleasing than friend- ship . The feeling of ...
... better than admiration - judgment to estimate things at their true value . ” — I still insisted ( says Mr. Bos- well ) that admiration was more pleasing than judgment , as love is more pleasing than friend- ship . The feeling of ...
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... better to have fine clothes , for instance , than not to feel the want of them . - JOHNSON . " No , Sir ; fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect . Was Charles the Twelfth , think you ...
... better to have fine clothes , for instance , than not to feel the want of them . - JOHNSON . " No , Sir ; fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect . Was Charles the Twelfth , think you ...
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... better at the Mitre . " I told him that I had been at Sir John Fielding's office , complaining of my landlord , and had been informed , that though I had taken my lodgings for a year , I might , upon proof of his bad behaviour , quit ...
... better at the Mitre . " I told him that I had been at Sir John Fielding's office , complaining of my landlord , and had been informed , that though I had taken my lodgings for a year , I might , upon proof of his bad behaviour , quit ...
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... better have ten thousand pounds at the end of ten years passed in England , than twenty thousand pounds at the end of ten years passed in India , because you must compute what you give for money ; and a man who has lived ten years in ...
... better have ten thousand pounds at the end of ten years passed in England , than twenty thousand pounds at the end of ten years passed in India , because you must compute what you give for money ; and a man who has lived ten years in ...
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... better . " -BOSWELL . " But , Sir , why don't you give us something in some other way ? " — G . “ Ay , Sir , we have a claim upon you . " - J . " No , Sir , I am not obliged to do any more . No man is obliged to do as much as he can do ...
... better . " -BOSWELL . " But , Sir , why don't you give us something in some other way ? " — G . “ Ay , Sir , we have a claim upon you . " - J . " No , Sir , I am not obliged to do any more . No man is obliged to do as much as he can do ...
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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