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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... much happiness as possible . " - Yet he said it was not necessary to mention such trifles as that meat was too much or too little done , or that the wea- VOL . II . B It ther was fair or rainy . He said , that Life, ·
... much happiness as possible . " - Yet he said it was not necessary to mention such trifles as that meat was too much or too little done , or that the wea- VOL . II . B It ther was fair or rainy . He said , that Life, ·
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... mentioned , con- cerning whom it was observed , that he had a con- stant firmness of mind ; for after a laborious day , and amidst a multiplicity of cares and anxie- ties , he would sit down with his sisters , and be quite cheerful and ...
... mentioned , con- cerning whom it was observed , that he had a con- stant firmness of mind ; for after a laborious day , and amidst a multiplicity of cares and anxie- ties , he would sit down with his sisters , and be quite cheerful and ...
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... mentioned to Johnson as of a very strong mind , but as hav- ing little of that tenderness which is common to human nature ; as an instance of which , when it was suggested to him that he should invite his son , who had been settled ten ...
... mentioned to Johnson as of a very strong mind , but as hav- ing little of that tenderness which is common to human nature ; as an instance of which , when it was suggested to him that he should invite his son , who had been settled ten ...
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... mentioned Hume's notion , that all who are happy are equally happy , a little miss with a new gown at a dancing - school ball , a general at the head of a victorious army , and an orator after having made an eloquent speech in a great ...
... mentioned Hume's notion , that all who are happy are equally happy , a little miss with a new gown at a dancing - school ball , a general at the head of a victorious army , and an orator after having made an eloquent speech in a great ...
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... mentioned the advice given us by philosophers , to console ourselves , when dis- tressed or embarrassed , by thinking of those who are in a worse situation than ourselves ; but this , he observed , could not apply to all , for there ...
... mentioned the advice given us by philosophers , to console ourselves , when dis- tressed or embarrassed , by thinking of those who are in a worse situation than ourselves ; but this , he observed , could not apply to all , for there ...
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