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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... give them occasion to please themselves in speaking , and himself shall continually gather knowledge . LONDON : Bacon's Essays . PRINTED FOR J. MAWMAN ; LONGMAN , HURST , REES , AND ORME ; LACKINGTON , ALLEN , AND CO .; VERNOR , HOOD ...
... give them occasion to please themselves in speaking , and himself shall continually gather knowledge . LONDON : Bacon's Essays . PRINTED FOR J. MAWMAN ; LONGMAN , HURST , REES , AND ORME ; LACKINGTON , ALLEN , AND CO .; VERNOR , HOOD ...
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... give us . " If therefore the profession you have chosen has some unexpected inconveniencies , console yourself by reflecting that no profession is with- out them ; and that all the importunities and per- plexities of business are ...
... give us . " If therefore the profession you have chosen has some unexpected inconveniencies , console yourself by reflecting that no profession is with- out them ; and that all the importunities and per- plexities of business are ...
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... give for money ; and a man who has lived ten years in India , has given up ten years of social comfort , and all those advantages which arise from living in England . The ingenious Mr. Brown , distin- guished by the name of Capability ...
... give for money ; and a man who has lived ten years in India , has given up ten years of social comfort , and all those advantages which arise from living in England . The ingenious Mr. Brown , distin- guished by the name of Capability ...
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... give yourself no more concern about a new play , than if you had never had any thing to do with the stage . " - " Why , Sir ( said Johnson ) , our tastes greatly alter . The lad does not care for the child's rattle , and the old man ...
... give yourself no more concern about a new play , than if you had never had any thing to do with the stage . " - " Why , Sir ( said Johnson ) , our tastes greatly alter . The lad does not care for the child's rattle , and the old man ...
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... gives up all he has . " - B . " Foote , Sir , told me , that when he was very ill , he was not afraid to die . " - J . " It is not true , Sir . Hold a pistol to Foote's breast , or to Hume's breast , and threaten to kill them , and you ...
... gives up all he has . " - B . " Foote , Sir , told me , that when he was very ill , he was not afraid to die . " - J . " It is not true , Sir . Hold a pistol to Foote's breast , or to Hume's breast , and threaten to kill them , and you ...
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