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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... perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased , When I came to Litchfield ( said he to Mr. Bos- well ) , I found my old friend Harry Jackson dead , It was a loss , and a loss not to be repaired , as he was one of the companions of my ...
... perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased , When I came to Litchfield ( said he to Mr. Bos- well ) , I found my old friend Harry Jackson dead , It was a loss , and a loss not to be repaired , as he was one of the companions of my ...
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... perhaps , impress the unthinking with seriousness : - " I never thought confidence with respect to futurity any part of the character of a brave , a wise , or a good man . Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing ; wisdom ...
... perhaps , impress the unthinking with seriousness : - " I never thought confidence with respect to futurity any part of the character of a brave , a wise , or a good man . Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing ; wisdom ...
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... perhaps for want of habitual piety , to a gloomy acquiescence in necessity . Of two mor- tal beings , one must lose the other ; but surely there is a higher and better comfort to be drawn from the consideration of that Providence which ...
... perhaps for want of habitual piety , to a gloomy acquiescence in necessity . Of two mor- tal beings , one must lose the other ; but surely there is a higher and better comfort to be drawn from the consideration of that Providence which ...
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... perhaps be necessary , in order to preserve both men and angels in a state of rectitude , that they should have continually before them the punishment of those who have deviated from it ; but we may hope , that by some other means a ...
... perhaps be necessary , in order to preserve both men and angels in a state of rectitude , that they should have continually before them the punishment of those who have deviated from it ; but we may hope , that by some other means a ...
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... perhaps they may be scarcely sensible of it . " When Johnson paid a visit at Oxford , he sur- prized the company not a little , by acknowledg- ing , with a look of horror , that he was much op- pressed by the fear of death . The amiable ...
... perhaps they may be scarcely sensible of it . " When Johnson paid a visit at Oxford , he sur- prized the company not a little , by acknowledg- ing , with a look of horror , that he was much op- pressed by the fear of death . The amiable ...
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