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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... gentleman was mentioned , con- cerning whom it was observed , that he had a con- stant firmness of mind ; for after a laborious day , and amidst a multiplicity of cares and anxie- ties , he would sit down with his sisters , and be quite ...
... gentleman was mentioned , con- cerning whom it was observed , that he had a con- stant firmness of mind ; for after a laborious day , and amidst a multiplicity of cares and anxie- ties , he would sit down with his sisters , and be quite ...
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... gentlemen whom I had invited , not being able to receive them at home , and being obliged to order supper at the Mitre . I went to Johnson in the morning , and talked of it as of a serious distress . He laughed , and said , " Consider ...
... gentlemen whom I had invited , not being able to receive them at home , and being obliged to order supper at the Mitre . I went to Johnson in the morning , and talked of it as of a serious distress . He laughed , and said , " Consider ...
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... gentleman mentioned the advice given us by philosophers , to console ourselves , when dis- tressed or embarrassed , by thinking of those who are in a worse situation than ourselves ; but this , he observed , could not apply to all , for ...
... gentleman mentioned the advice given us by philosophers , to console ourselves , when dis- tressed or embarrassed , by thinking of those who are in a worse situation than ourselves ; but this , he observed , could not apply to all , for ...
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... gentleman who held a considerable office in the law expatiated on the happiness of a savage life , and mentioned an instance of an officer who had actually lived for some time in the wilds of Ame rica , of whom , when in that state , he ...
... gentleman who held a considerable office in the law expatiated on the happiness of a savage life , and mentioned an instance of an officer who had actually lived for some time in the wilds of Ame rica , of whom , when in that state , he ...
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... gentleman was mentioned to him as hav- ing been formerly gloomy from low spirits , and * " Here ( says Mr. B. ) I am sensible I was in the wrong to bring before his view what he ever looked upon with horror ; for although when in a ...
... gentleman was mentioned to him as hav- ing been formerly gloomy from low spirits , and * " Here ( says Mr. B. ) I am sensible I was in the wrong to bring before his view what he ever looked upon with horror ; for although when in a ...
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