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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Every body will agree that it should be the interest of those who teach to have
scholars ; and this is the case in our Universities . That they are rich is certainly
not true ; for they have nothing good enough to keep a man of eminent learning
with ...
Every body will agree that it should be the interest of those who teach to have
scholars ; and this is the case in our Universities . That they are rich is certainly
not true ; for they have nothing good enough to keep a man of eminent learning
with ...
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A gentleman maintained that the art of printing had hurt real learning , by
disseminating idle writings . - Johnson said , “ Sir , if it had not been for the art of
printing , we should now have had no learning at all ; for books would have
perished ...
A gentleman maintained that the art of printing had hurt real learning , by
disseminating idle writings . - Johnson said , “ Sir , if it had not been for the art of
printing , we should now have had no learning at all ; for books would have
perished ...
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tainment of learning was thus marked upon two occasions . Of Queen Elizabeth
he said , “ She had learning enough to have given dignity to a bishop ; " and of Mr
. Thomas Davies he said , “ Sir , Davies has learning enough to give credit to a ...
tainment of learning was thus marked upon two occasions . Of Queen Elizabeth
he said , “ She had learning enough to have given dignity to a bishop ; " and of Mr
. Thomas Davies he said , “ Sir , Davies has learning enough to give credit to a ...
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Talking of the eminent writers in Queen Anne's reign , he observed , “ I think Dr.
Arbuthnot the first man among them . He was the most universal genius , being
an excellent physician , a man of deep learning , and a man of much humour .
Talking of the eminent writers in Queen Anne's reign , he observed , “ I think Dr.
Arbuthnot the first man among them . He was the most universal genius , being
an excellent physician , a man of deep learning , and a man of much humour .
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Johnson having read aloud , from the beginning of it , where there were some
commonplace assertions as to the superiority of ancient times ; " How . false (
said he ) is all this , to say that in ancient times learning was not a disgrace to a
peer ...
Johnson having read aloud , from the beginning of it , where there were some
commonplace assertions as to the superiority of ancient times ; " How . false (
said he ) is all this , to say that in ancient times learning was not a disgrace to a
peer ...
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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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