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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... Human Wishes ; ' yet observed , that things were done upon the sup- position of happiness ; grand houses were built , fine gardens were made , splendid places of pub- lic amusement were contrived , and crowded with company . " Alas ...
... Human Wishes ; ' yet observed , that things were done upon the sup- position of happiness ; grand houses were built , fine gardens were made , splendid places of pub- lic amusement were contrived , and crowded with company . " Alas ...
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... human nature ; as an instance of which , when it was suggested to him that he should invite his son , who had been settled ten years in foreign parts , to come home and pay him a visit , his answer was , " No , no , let him mind his ...
... human nature ; as an instance of which , when it was suggested to him that he should invite his son , who had been settled ten years in foreign parts , to come home and pay him a visit , his answer was , " No , no , let him mind his ...
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... human beings . Mr. B. supported a different opinion , namely , that a man is happier , and enlarged upon the anxiety and sufferings which are endured at school.- " Ah ! Sir ( said Johnson ) , a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a ...
... human beings . Mr. B. supported a different opinion , namely , that a man is happier , and enlarged upon the anxiety and sufferings which are endured at school.- " Ah ! Sir ( said Johnson ) , a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a ...
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... human happiness ? ' " Do not allow yourself , Sir ( said Johnson ) , to be imposed upon by such gross absurdity . It is sad stuff ; it is brutish . If a bull could speak , he might as well exclaim , ' Here am I with this cow and this ...
... human happiness ? ' " Do not allow yourself , Sir ( said Johnson ) , to be imposed upon by such gross absurdity . It is sad stuff ; it is brutish . If a bull could speak , he might as well exclaim , ' Here am I with this cow and this ...
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... human life ; and he often quoted these lines of Dryden : " Strange cozenage ! none would live past years again , " Yet all hope pleasure from what still remain . " For his part , he said , he never passed that week in his life which he ...
... human life ; and he often quoted these lines of Dryden : " Strange cozenage ! none would live past years again , " Yet all hope pleasure from what still remain . " For his part , he said , he never passed that week in his life which he ...
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