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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... 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 , distin1 guished by the name of Capability Brown , told me
LIFE .
... 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 , distin1 guished by the name of Capability Brown , told me
LIFE .
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Stag grat their but for tł Sir , i pose one II It · The modes of living in different
countries , and the various views with which ... and mentioned an instance of an
officer who had actually lived for some time in the wilds of America , of whom ,
when in ...
Stag grat their but for tł Sir , i pose one II It · The modes of living in different
countries , and the various views with which ... and mentioned an instance of an
officer who had actually lived for some time in the wilds of America , of whom ,
when in ...
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Now when a clergyman has but a small living , or even two small livings , he can
afford very little to a curate . ... I should have been a parson , and had a good
living , like Bloxam and several others , and lived comfortVOL . II . E ably .
Now when a clergyman has but a small living , or even two small livings , he can
afford very little to a curate . ... I should have been a parson , and had a good
living , like Bloxam and several others , and lived comfortVOL . II . E ably .
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there had been a larger influx of knowledge into the world than when Theocritus
lived . Theo . critus does not abound in description , though living in a beautiful
country ; the manners painted are coarse and gross . Virgil has much more ...
there had been a larger influx of knowledge into the world than when Theocritus
lived . Theo . critus does not abound in description , though living in a beautiful
country ; the manners painted are coarse and gross . Virgil has much more ...
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It is wonderful ( said he ) that a man who for forty years had lived with the great
and the witty should have acquired so ill the talents of conversation : and he had
but half to furnish ; for one half of what he said was oaths . ” He , however ,
allowed ...
It is wonderful ( said he ) that a man who for forty years had lived with the great
and the witty should have acquired so ill the talents of conversation : and he had
but half to furnish ; for one half of what he said was oaths . ” He , however ,
allowed ...
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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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