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, Volumen2 |
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Talking of the origin of language , Johnson said , “ It must have come by
inspiration . A thousand , nay a million of children could not invent a language .
While the organs are pliable , there is not understanding enough to form a
language ; 102 ...
Talking of the origin of language , Johnson said , “ It must have come by
inspiration . A thousand , nay a million of children could not invent a language .
While the organs are pliable , there is not understanding enough to form a
language ; 102 ...
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there is not understanding enough to form a language ; by the time that there is
understanding enough , the organs are become stiff . We know that after a certain
age we cannot learn to pronounce a new language . No foreigner , who comes ...
there is not understanding enough to form a language ; by the time that there is
understanding enough , the organs are become stiff . We know that after a certain
age we cannot learn to pronounce a new language . No foreigner , who comes ...
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When they once desire to learn , they will naturally have recourse to the nearest
language by which that desire can be gratified ; and one will tell another that if he
would attain knowledge , he must learn English . “ This speculation may ...
When they once desire to learn , they will naturally have recourse to the nearest
language by which that desire can be gratified ; and one will tell another that if he
would attain knowledge , he must learn English . “ This speculation may ...
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Poetry , indeed , cannot be translated ; and , therefore , it is the poets that
preserve languages ; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we
could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation . But as the beauties
of ...
Poetry , indeed , cannot be translated ; and , therefore , it is the poets that
preserve languages ; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we
could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation . But as the beauties
of ...
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In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath . ” : At another time , when
somebody endeavoured to argue in favour of the Epitaph for Goldsmith's tablet in
Westminster Abbey being in English , Johnson said , “ The language of the
country of ...
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath . ” : At another time , when
somebody endeavoured to argue in favour of the Epitaph for Goldsmith's tablet in
Westminster Abbey being in English , Johnson said , “ The language of the
country of ...
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| Título | 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, Volumen2 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, Samuel Johnson |
| Autor | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | J. Mawman, 1807 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de California |
| Digitalizado | 20 Abr. 2017 |
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