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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... keep a journal of his life , full and unreserved . He said , it would be a very good exercise , and would yield him great satisfaction when the par ticulars were faded from his remembrance . He counselled him to keep it private , and ...
... keep a journal of his life , full and unreserved . He said , it would be a very good exercise , and would yield him great satisfaction when the par ticulars were faded from his remembrance . He counselled him to keep it private , and ...
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... keep a journal of his life , but never could persevere . " The great thing to be recorded ( said he ) is the state of your own mind ; and you should write down every thing that you remember , for you cannot judge at first what is good ...
... keep a journal of his life , but never could persevere . " The great thing to be recorded ( said he ) is the state of your own mind ; and you should write down every thing that you remember , for you cannot judge at first what is good ...
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... keeps death out of their sight so that all men are equally afraid of death when they see it ; only some have a power of turning their sight away from it better than others . " Johnson's own account of his views of futurity will appear ...
... keeps death out of their sight so that all men are equally afraid of death when they see it ; only some have a power of turning their sight away from it better than others . " Johnson's own account of his views of futurity will appear ...
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... keep it long . " All grief ( said Johnson ) for what cannot in the course of nature be helped , soon wears away ; in some sooner , indeed , in some later ; but it never continues very long , unless where there is madness , such as will ...
... keep it long . " All grief ( said Johnson ) for what cannot in the course of nature be helped , soon wears away ; in some sooner , indeed , in some later ; but it never continues very long , unless where there is madness , such as will ...
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... keeping away the thoughts of it . " He then , in a low and earnest tone , talked of his meditating upon the awful hour of his own dissolution , and in what manner he should conduct himself upon that occasion : " I know not ( said he ) ...
... keeping away the thoughts of it . " He then , in a low and earnest tone , talked of his meditating upon the awful hour of his own dissolution , and in what manner he should conduct himself upon that occasion : " I know not ( said he ) ...
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