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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If we three should discuss even the great question concerning the existence of a
Supreme Being by ourselves , we should not be restrained ; for that would be to
put an end to all improvement : but if we should discuss it in the presence of ten ...
If we three should discuss even the great question concerning the existence of a
Supreme Being by ourselves , we should not be restrained ; for that would be to
put an end to all improvement : but if we should discuss it in the presence of ten ...
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A question being introduced as having been inuch agitated in the Church of
Scotland , whether the claim of lay - patrons to present ministers to parishes be
well founded ; and supposing it to be well founded , whether it ought to be
exercised ...
A question being introduced as having been inuch agitated in the Church of
Scotland , whether the claim of lay - patrons to present ministers to parishes be
well founded ; and supposing it to be well founded , whether it ought to be
exercised ...
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large on the subject , as supposing the question to be agitated before the general
assembly . On another occasion Mr. Boswell introduced a common subject of
complaint , the very small salaries which many curates have , and maintained ...
large on the subject , as supposing the question to be agitated before the general
assembly . On another occasion Mr. Boswell introduced a common subject of
complaint , the very small salaries which many curates have , and maintained ...
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he evaded the question thus : “ Sir , I do not say that it may not be made a very
good translation . " Here nothing whatever in favour of the performance was
affirmed , and yet the writer was not shocked . A printed · Ode to the Warlike
Genius . of ...
he evaded the question thus : “ Sir , I do not say that it may not be made a very
good translation . " Here nothing whatever in favour of the performance was
affirmed , and yet the writer was not shocked . A printed · Ode to the Warlike
Genius . of ...
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_ “ No , Sir ( said I ) ; pray what do you mean by the question ? " _ " Why ( replied
Garrick , with an affected indifference , yet as if standing on tip - toe ) , Lord
Camden has this moment left me . We have had a long walk together . ” — J . “
Well ...
_ “ No , Sir ( said I ) ; pray what do you mean by the question ? " _ " Why ( replied
Garrick , with an affected indifference , yet as if standing on tip - toe ) , Lord
Camden has this moment left me . We have had a long walk together . ” — J . “
Well ...
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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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