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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... objection is made against the truth of ghosts appearing : that if they are in a state of happiness , it would be a punishment to them to return to this world ; and if they are in a state of misery , it would be giving them a respite ...
... objection is made against the truth of ghosts appearing : that if they are in a state of happiness , it would be a punishment to them to return to this world ; and if they are in a state of misery , it would be giving them a respite ...
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... objected , that what I maintain may encourage suicide , I answer , I am not to tell a lie to prevent it . " - B . " But does not the text say , ' As the tree falls , so it must lie ? " - J . " Yes , Sir ; as the tree falls : but ( after ...
... objected , that what I maintain may encourage suicide , I answer , I am not to tell a lie to prevent it . " - B . " But does not the text say , ' As the tree falls , so it must lie ? " - J . " Yes , Sir ; as the tree falls : but ( after ...
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... objected to the " observance of days , and months , and years , " Johnson an- swered , " The Church does not superstitiously observe days , merely as days , but as memorials of important facts . Christmas might be kept as well upon 40 ...
... objected to the " observance of days , and months , and years , " Johnson an- swered , " The Church does not superstitiously observe days , merely as days , but as memorials of important facts . Christmas might be kept as well upon 40 ...
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... objections . You have demon- stration for a First Cause : you see he must be good as well as powerful , because there is nothing to make him otherwise , and goodness of itself is preferable . Yet you have against this , what is very ...
... objections . You have demon- stration for a First Cause : you see he must be good as well as powerful , because there is nothing to make him otherwise , and goodness of itself is preferable . Yet you have against this , what is very ...
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... objections raised against any thing . There are objections against a plenum , and ob- jections against a vacuum ; yet one of them must certainly be true . " 66 Hume's argument against the belief of miracles being mentioned , that it is ...
... objections raised against any thing . There are objections against a plenum , and ob- jections against a vacuum ; yet one of them must certainly be true . " 66 Hume's argument against the belief of miracles being mentioned , that it is ...
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admiration afraid allow ancient appeared asked Beauclerk Beggar's Opera believe better Bishop blank verse Burke Cawston character Christian Church Church of England Church of Scotland Cibber clergyman consider conversation death Divinity eminent English expressed fear Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happiness History of China hope human Hume humour imagination infidel John Johnson observed language learning literary lived Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Camden Madam maintained mankind manner ment merit mind miracles nature neral never objections occasion once opinion passion perhaps philosophers pleased poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise punishment racter religion Scotland Scripture sermons Shakspeare shew Shiels Sir Joshua Reynolds Sir said Johnson style suppose sure talked tell Theocritus thing Thirty-nine Articles thought tion told translation true truth uneasy verse Virgil wish wonder write written wrote